Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Mon 3 Aug 2015

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 04:13 on Mon 3 Aug to 01:10 on Tue 4 Aug, so it holds moonrise only on Mon 3 Aug, at 22:32. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Sofia

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, 06:19 here. Tritiya ended at 04:13, before it. Chaturthi ends at 01:10 Tue, when the lead reaches 228°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:43, came before Tritiya ended at 06:43: this day reads Tritiya. Chaturthi ends at 03:40 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturthi: it is kshaya.

Sofia · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 06:19, came after Tritiya ended at 04:13: this day reads Chaturthi.

The night of Sun 2 Aug ran from sunset 20:46 Sun to sunrise 06:19, 9 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:19 to 20:45, 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, 20:45 to 06:20 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 323°20′. It leaves at 22:08, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 106.4° + 323.6° = 430°, one full turn and 70°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 21:32, then Sukarma.

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 14:40, when the lead reaches 222°; Balava until 01:10 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:19 to 06:20 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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 17 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 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 14 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: 20 Mar 2015, 11:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 131° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.