Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 26 Oct 1973

Govardhan Puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada began at 07:16 on Fri 26 Oct, before that morning’s pratahkala, and ended at 08:00 on Sat 27 Oct, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning Pratipada fills: Fri 26 Oct. No text giving Govardhan Puja’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Govardhan Puja: 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, 07:22 here. Amavasya ended at 07:16, before it. Pratipada ends at 08:00 Sat, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 07:16, before sunrise at 07:22, and ends at 08:00 Sat, after the next sunrise at 07:23 Sat. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:28, came before Amavasya ended at 08:46: this day reads Amavasya.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:22, came after Amavasya ended at 07:16: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Thu 25 Oct ran from sunset 18:06 Thu to sunrise 07:22, 13 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:22 to 18:04, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:04 to 07:23 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 186°40′. It leaves at 03:59 Sat, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 189.1° + 189.1° = 378.2°, one full turn and 18.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 22:13, then Ayushmana.

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 runs until 19:34, when the lead reaches 6°; Bava until 08:00 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:22 to 07:23 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 24 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 26 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 1973, 15:45 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 199° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2030; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1895.