Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 4 Jun 2007

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 08:11 on Mon 4 Jun to 08:07 on Tue 5 Jun, so it holds moonrise only on Mon 4 Jun, at 00:41 Tue. 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, 06:30 here. Dwitiya ended at 07:52 Sun, before it. Tritiya ends at 08:11, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 3 Jun ran from sunset 21:25 Sun to sunrise 06:30, 9 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:30 to 21:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:26 to 06:30 Tue, 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 4 at 263°20′. It leaves at 10:56, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 49.1° + 264.3° = 313.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 17:53, then Brahma.

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 20:04 Sun, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 08:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:30 to 06:30 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 May 00:27 Thu to 15 Jun 08:13 Fri the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 15:22 Fri, 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 15 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: 19 Mar 2007, 06:42 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 74.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.