Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 2 Nov 1994

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 20:13 on Wed 2 Nov to 16:35 on Thu 3 Nov, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Wed 2 Nov. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 16:56–19:39. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 17:31 to 19:19.

Diwali: every date in Sevan

The abhyanga bath is taken in arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 23:37 on Tue 1 Nov to 20:13 on Wed 2 Nov, so only Wednesday’s arunodaya (04:54–06:30) falls within it. No text giving Narak Chaturdashi’s time was found; arunodaya is Tithika’s convention.

Narak Chaturdashi: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:30 here. Trayodashi ended at 23:37 Tue, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 20:13, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 19 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 1 Nov ran from sunset 16:57 Tue to sunrise 06:30, 13 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 54 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:30 to 16:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:56 to 06:31 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 41 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 00:02 Thu, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 195.7° + 175.7° = 371.4°, one full turn and 11.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 09:26, then Priti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 09:57, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 20:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:30 to 06:31 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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, 3 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 3 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: 11 Apr 1994, 04:17 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 198.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2051; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1916.