Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 1 Sep 2015

Kajari Teej follows the tithi at sunrise. Tritiya runs from 15:20 on Mon 31 Aug to 11:54 on Tue 1 Sep, so it holds sunrise only on Tue 1 Sep, at 06:26. No text giving Kajari Teej’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Kajari Teej: every date in Sevan

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 11:54 on Tue 1 Sep to 08:47 on Wed 2 Sep, so it holds moonrise only on Tue 1 Sep, at 21:14. 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, 06:26 here. Dwitiya ended at 15:20 Mon, before it. Tritiya ends at 11:54, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 31 Aug ran from sunset 19:34 Mon to sunrise 06:26, 10 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:26 to 19:32, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:32 to 06:27 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 346°40′. It leaves at 03:18 Wed, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 134.3° + 347.1° = 481.4°, one full turn and 121.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 00:34 Wed, then Vriddhi.

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 01:35, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 11:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:26 to 06:27 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 13 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 13:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 158.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.