Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 9 Apr 1959

Ghatasthapana is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 07:29 on Wed 8 Apr to 09:49 on Thu 9 Apr, touching pratahkala on both mornings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning it holds more of: Thu 9 Apr. No text giving Chaitra Navratri · Ghatasthapana’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Chaitra Navratri: every date in Sevan

Vikram Samvat 2016 begins on the day Chaitra Shukla Pratipada holds sunrise: Thu 9 Apr, at 06:32. Pratipada lasts until 09:49.

Nav Samvatsar: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:32 here. Amavasya ended at 07:29 Wed, before it. Pratipada ends at 09:49, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 8 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 8 Apr ran from sunset 19:30 Wed to sunrise 06:32, 11 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:32 to 19:31, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:31 to 06:30 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 3°20′. It leaves at 21:55, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 355.2° + 5.7° = 360.9°, one full turn and 0.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 05:42 Fri, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 20:37 Wed, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 09:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:32 to 06:30 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 May, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 8 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra. This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 1959, 07:29 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 0.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2016; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1881.