Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 11 Aug 1998

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 00:06 on Tue 11 Aug to 21:27 on Tue 11 Aug, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Tue 11 Aug. 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, 07:06 here. Tritiya ended at 00:06, before it. Chaturthi ends at 21:27, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 10 Aug ran from sunset 21:04 Mon to sunrise 07:06, 10 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:06 to 21:03, 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, 21:03 to 07:07 Wed, 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′. Uttara Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 03:36 Wed, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 114.4° + 334.3° = 448.7°, one full turn and 88.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 14:18, then Dhriti.

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 10:47, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 21:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:06 to 07:07 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 22 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1998, 07:13 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 131° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.