Panchang in Chahārbāgh, Alborz Province, Iran Thu 4 Jul 2024

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 03:54 on Thu 4 Jul to 02:58 on Fri 5 Jul, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (23:52–00:30 Fri) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Chahārbāgh

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:55 here. Trayodashi ended at 03:54, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 02:58 Fri, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 22 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:28, came before Trayodashi ended at 05:54: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 04:58 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

Chahārbāgh · UTC+3:30

Sunrise here, 04:55, came after Trayodashi ended at 03:54: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Wed 3 Jul ran from sunset 19:26 Wed to sunrise 04:55, 9 h 29 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:55 to 19:26, 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, 19:26 to 04:56 Fri, 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 53°20′. It leaves at 01:54 Fri, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 78.4° + 54.9° = 133.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 04:59, then Vriddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 15:23, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 02:58 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:55 to 04:56 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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 14 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Jul, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 6 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha here, and Jyeshtha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 21:50 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 83.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.