Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 2 Mar 1983

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:55 on Wed 2 Mar to 03:30 on Thu 3 Mar, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 2 Mar, at 22:28. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:33 here. Tritiya ended at 04:55, before it. Chaturthi ends at 03:30 Thu, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 1 Mar ran from sunset 18:50 Tue to sunrise 07:33, 12 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:33 to 18:51, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:51 to 07:32 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 173°20′. It leaves at 04:20 Thu, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 317.4° + 174.8° = 492.2°, one full turn and 132.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 09:28, then Vriddhi.

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 16:07, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 03:30 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:33 to 07:32 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 04:31 Sun to 14 Mar 21:43 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 22:44 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 14 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) here, and Phalguna (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 14:17 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 336.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.