Panchang in Codcod, Western Visayas, Philippines Tue 13 Nov 2001

Dhanteras puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 21:28 on Mon 12 Nov to 18:56 on Tue 13 Nov, so it touches only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:21–19:49). No text giving Dhanteras’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:21–19:49. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 17:28 to 19:31.

Dhanteras: every date in Codcod

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 21:28 on Mon 12 Nov to 18:56 on Tue 13 Nov, so it touches only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:21–19:49). No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Codcod

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 18:56 on Tue 13 Nov to 16:37 on Wed 14 Nov, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (23:06–23:56) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Codcod

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:41 here. Dwadashi ended at 21:28 Mon, before it. Trayodashi ends at 18:56, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 12 Nov ran from sunset 17:21 Mon to sunrise 05:41, 12 h 20 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:41 to 17:21, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:21 to 05:41 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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 1 at 173°20′. It leaves at 00:39 Wed, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 206.7° + 175.3° = 382°, one full turn and 22°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 12:57, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 08:11, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 18:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:41 to 05:41 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 15 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2001, 09:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 226.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.