Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 2 Jun 1999

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 18:07 on Wed 2 Jun to 19:46 on Thu 3 Jun, so it holds moonrise only on Wed 2 Jun, at 23:56. 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, 06:31 here. Dwitiya ended at 16:10 Tue, before it. Tritiya ends at 18:07, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 1 Jun ran from sunset 21:23 Tue to sunrise 06:31, 9 h 8 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:31 to 21:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:24 to 06:31 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 23:57, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 47.3° + 257.9° = 305.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 09:20, then Shukla.

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 05:10, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 18:07.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:31 to 06:31 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 15 May 17:05 Sat to 14 Jun 00:02 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 14:08 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1999, 22:47 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 74.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.