Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 4 Oct 1956

Ghatasthapana is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 07:24 on Thu 4 Oct to 05:32 on Fri 5 Oct, so it touches only Thursday’s pratahkala (05:59–08:18).

Sharad Navratri: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 09:43 on Wed 3 Oct to 07:24 on Thu 4 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 4 Oct, at 05:59. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:59 here. Chaturdashi ended at 09:43 Wed, before it. Amavasya ends at 07:24, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 20 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 07:24 and ended at 05:32 Fri, between the sunrises of 05:59 and 06:00 Fri. Thursday reads Amavasya and Friday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 3 Oct ran from sunset 17:39 Wed to sunrise 05:59, 12 h 20 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:59 to 17:37, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:37 to 06:00 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 17:04, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 167.6° + 166.8° = 334.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 01:32 Fri, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada ended at 20:31 Wed, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 07:24.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:59 to 06:00 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 4 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 11 Apr 1956, 05:38 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 169.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2013; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1878.