Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 16 Sep 2015

Hartalika Teej’s puja is done in pratahkala, the first fifth of the day. Tritiya runs from 15:58 on Tue 15 Sep to 18:31 on Wed 16 Sep, so only Wednesday’s pratahkala (06:41–09:10) falls within it. No text giving Hartalika Teej’s time was found; pratahkala is Tithika’s convention.

Hartalika Teej: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 24°–36° is the 3rd, Shukla Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:41 here. Dwitiya ended at 15:58 Tue, before it. Tritiya ends at 18:31, when the lead reaches 36°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 15 Sep ran from sunset 19:09 Tue to sunrise 06:41, 11 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:41 to 19:08, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:08 to 06:42 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 21:12, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 148.9° + 179.5° = 328.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 16:01, then Indra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 05:16, when the lead reached 30°; Garaja runs until 18:31.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:41 to 06:42 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 17 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

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 173.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.