Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 23 Aug 1967

Kajari Teej follows the tithi at sunrise. Tritiya runs from 08:46 on Tue 22 Aug to 10:41 on Wed 23 Aug, so it holds sunrise only on Wed 23 Aug, at 06:17. No text giving Kajari Teej’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Kajari Teej: every date in Sevan

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 10:41 on Wed 23 Aug to 13:00 on Thu 24 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 23 Aug, at 21:28. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:17 here. Dwitiya ended at 08:46 Tue, before it. Tritiya ends at 10:41, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 20 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 22 Aug ran from sunset 19:48 Tue to sunrise 06:17, 10 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:17 to 19:47, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 41 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:47 to 06:18 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 336°40′. It leaves at 19:56, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 125.9° + 339.9° = 465.8°, one full turn and 105.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 08:00, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 21:40 Tue, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 10:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:17 to 06:18 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 10 Apr 1967, 02:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 129.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2024; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1889.