Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 24 Oct 1995

Govardhan Puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Pratipada runs from 08:36 on Tue 24 Oct to 06:10 on Wed 25 Oct, so it touches only Tuesday’s pratahkala (07:20–09:29). 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 10:37 on Mon 23 Oct to 08:36 on Tue 24 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Tue 24 Oct, at 07:20. 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, 07:20 here. Chaturdashi ended at 10:37 Mon, before it. Amavasya ends at 08:36, when the lead reaches 360°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 08:36 and ended at 06:10 Wed, between the sunrises of 07:20 and 07:21 Wed. Tuesday reads Amavasya and Wednesday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 23 Oct ran from sunset 18:09 Mon to sunrise 07:20, 13 h 11 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 18:07, 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, 18:07 to 07:21 Wed, 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 183°20′. It leaves at 08:53, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 186.4° + 185.7° = 372.1°, one full turn and 12.1°. 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 09:08, then Priti.

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 21:40 Mon, when the lead reached 354°; Nagava runs until 08:36.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:21 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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, 24 Oct, 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 24 Oct, 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: 31 Mar 1995, 06:08 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 200.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2052; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1917.