Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 2 May 1991

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 05:59 on Thu 2 May to 08:25 on Fri 3 May, so it holds moonrise only on Thu 2 May, at 23:38. 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: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Dwitiya ended at 03:52 Wed, before it. Tritiya ends at 05:59, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 03:52 Wed, before sunrise at 06:00 Wed, and ends at 05:59, after the next sunrise at 05:58. Both days read Tritiya: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 1 May ran from sunset 19:54 Wed to sunrise 05:58, 10 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 19:55, 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, 19:55 to 05:57 Fri, 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 3 at 233°20′. It leaves at 19:13, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 17.4° + 233.4° = 250.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 10:32, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 16:53 Wed, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 05:59.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:57 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 23:37 Sun to 14 May 08:35 Tue the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 15 May 05:25 Wed, 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 14 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: 16 Mar 1991, 12:10 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 45.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2048; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1913.