Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 15 Sep 1959

Anant Chaturdashi follows the tithi at sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 05:19 on Tue 15 Sep to 04:51 on Wed 16 Sep, so it holds sunrise only on Tue 15 Sep, at 06:39. No text giving Anant Chaturdashi’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Anant Chaturdashi: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:39 here. Trayodashi ended at 05:19, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 04:51 Wed, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 3 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:05, came before Trayodashi ended at 06:49: this day reads Trayodashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 06:39, came after Trayodashi ended at 05:19: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Mon 14 Sep ran from sunset 19:12 Mon to sunrise 06:39, 11 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:39 to 19:10, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:10 to 06:40 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 09:49, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 148.2° + 304.9° = 453.1°, one full turn and 93.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 06:59, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 17:01, when the lead reaches 162°; Vanija until 04:51 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:39 to 06:40 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 2 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 3 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada 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 153.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2016; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1881.