Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 25 Sep 2003

The shraddha for all ancestors is done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Amavasya runs from 10:45 on Thu 25 Sep to 08:09 on Fri 26 Sep, so only Thursday’s aparahna (15:03–17:28) falls within it. No text giving Sarva Pitru Amavasya’s time was found; aparahna is Tithika’s convention.

Sarva Pitru Amavasya: 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, 07:49 here. Trayodashi ended at 12:55 Wed, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 10:45, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 10 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 24 Sep ran from sunset 19:54 Wed to sunrise 07:49, 11 h 55 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:49 to 19:53, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:53 to 07:50 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 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 Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 143°20′. It leaves at 12:08, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 157.7° + 144.1° = 301.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 15:24, then Shukla.

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 ended at 23:54 Wed, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 10:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:49 to 07:50 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 26 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 2 Apr 2003, 00:18 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 169.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2060; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1925.