Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 29 Jul 2010

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 13:35 on Thu 29 Jul to 15:59 on Fri 30 Jul, so it holds moonrise only on Thu 29 Jul, at 22:37. 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, 06:54 here. Dwitiya ended at 11:08 Wed, before it. Tritiya ends at 13:35, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 28 Jul ran from sunset 21:19 Wed to sunrise 06:54, 9 h 35 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:54 to 21:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:18 to 06:54 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 313°20′. It leaves at 17:22, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 101.9° + 314.8° = 416.7°, one full turn and 56.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 01:36 Fri, then Atiganda.

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 00:21, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 13:35.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:54 to 06:54 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 10 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha 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 130.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.