Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 24 Aug 1971

Ganesha’s puja is done at madhyahna, the middle fifth of the day. Chaturthi runs from 09:20 on Tue 24 Aug to 11:49 on Wed 25 Aug, touching madhyahna on both days. When it does, the Dharmasindhu takes the earlier day: Tue 24 Aug.

Ganesh Chaturthi: every date in Sevan

Hartalika Teej’s puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Tritiya runs from 06:56 on Mon 23 Aug to 09:20 on Tue 24 Aug, touching pratahkala on both mornings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning it holds more of: Tue 24 Aug. No text giving Hartalika Teej’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Hartalika Teej: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:18 here. Dwitiya ended at 06:56 Mon, before it. Tritiya ends at 09:20, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 21 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 23 Aug ran from sunset 19:47 Mon to sunrise 06:18, 10 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:18 to 19:45, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:45 to 06:19 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 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 1 at 160°. It leaves at 06:24 Wed, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 126.8° + 161.4° = 288.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 15:48, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 20:07 Mon, when the lead reached 30°; Garaja runs until 09:20.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:18 to 06:19 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, 19 Sep, 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 21 Aug, 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: 26 Mar 1971, 23:23 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 144.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2028; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1893.