Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 3 Apr 2067

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 22:38 on Sat 2 Apr to 21:29 on Sun 3 Apr, between the two nights’ moonrise, touching neither. The Dharmasindhu then takes the later day: Sun 3 Apr. 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: 216°–228° is the 19th, Krishna Chaturthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:40 here. Tritiya ended at 22:38 Sat, before it. Chaturthi ends at 21:29, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sat 2 Apr ran from sunset 19:25 Sat to sunrise 06:40, 11 h 15 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:40 to 19:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:26 to 06:39 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 206°40′. It leaves at 14:36, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 348.6° + 208.8° = 557.4°, one full turn and 197.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 10:49, then Siddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturthi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 10:06, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 21:29.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:40 to 06:39 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Mar 12:29 Tue to 13 Apr 23:24 Wed the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 20:01 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 13 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) here, and Chaitra (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2067, 12:29 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 18.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2124; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1989.