Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 2 May 1972

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 23:39 on Mon 1 May to 01:34 on Wed 3 May, so it holds moonrise only on Tue 2 May, at 23:54. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Tritiya ended at 23:39 Mon, before it. Chaturthi ends at 01:34 Wed, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 1 May ran from sunset 19:55 Mon to sunrise 05:58, 10 h 3 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 19:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 44 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:56 to 05:56 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 236°40′. It leaves at 11:32, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 18.3° + 237.2° = 255.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 02:29 Wed, then Siddha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 12:39, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 01:34 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:56 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 00:30 Fri to 13 May 08:08 Sat the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 08:26 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha itself.

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 13 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1972, 15:34 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 46.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.