Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 11 Nov 1977

Govardhan Puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 11:09 on Fri 11 Nov to 07:40 on Sat 12 Nov, between the two mornings’ pratahkala, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Fri 11 Nov. No text giving Govardhan Puja’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Govardhan Puja: every date in Sevan

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya runs from 14:22 on Thu 10 Nov to 11:09 on Fri 11 Nov, so it holds sunrise only on Fri 11 Nov, at 07:41. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 348°–360° is the 30th, Krishna Amavasya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:41 here. Chaturdashi ended at 14:22 Thu, before it. Amavasya ends at 11:09, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 11:09 and ended at 07:40 Sat, between the sunrises of 07:41 and 07:42 Sat. Friday reads Amavasya and Saturday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 10 Nov ran from sunset 17:47 Thu to sunrise 07:41, 13 h 54 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:41 to 17:46, 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 night here, 17:46 to 07:42 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 200°. It leaves at 00:05 Sat, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 205.1° + 203.1° = 408.2°, one full turn and 48.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 15:26, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Amavasya is Chatushpada and the second Nagava. Chatushpada ended at 00:48, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 11:09.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:41 to 07:42 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 11 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1977, 22:32 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 229.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2034; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1899.