Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 10 Oct 2006

The Karwa Chauth fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:13 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:49 on Tue 10 Oct, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Tue 10 Oct.

Karwa Chauth: every date in Sevan

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:13 on Mon 9 Oct to 19:49 on Tue 10 Oct, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Tue 10 Oct. 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, 08:05 here. Tritiya ended at 22:13 Mon, before it. Chaturthi ends at 19:49, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 7 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 9 Oct ran from sunset 19:29 Mon to sunrise 08:05, 12 h 36 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:05 to 19:28, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:28 to 08:06 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 33°20′. It leaves at 17:46, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 172.7° + 34.2° = 206.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 18:06, then Vyatipata.

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 08:56, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 19:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:05 to 08:06 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, 22 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 22 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: 29 Mar 2006, 15:15 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 188.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2063; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1928.