Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sat 1 May 2010

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 14:21 on Sat 1 May to 14:47 on Sun 2 May, so it holds moonrise only on Sat 1 May, at 00:22 Sun. 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, 06:59 here. Dwitiya ended at 14:40 Fri, before it. Tritiya ends at 14:21, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Fri 30 Apr ran from sunset 20:54 Fri to sunrise 06:59, 10 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:59 to 20:55, 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, 20:55 to 06:58 Sun, 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 226°40′. It leaves at 03:37 Sun, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 16.6° + 228.9° = 245.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 20:28, then Shiva.

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 02:25, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 14:21.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:59 to 06:58 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Apr 17:28 Wed to 14 May 06:04 Fri the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 15 May 03:16 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2010, 01:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 45.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.