Panchang in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador Mon 8 Mar 2032

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 21:50 on Mon 8 Mar to 18:21 on Tue 9 Mar, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Mon 8 Mar. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Cuenca

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 312°–324° is the 27th, Krishna Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:22 here. Ekadashi ended at 01:05, before it. Dwadashi ends at 21:50, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:38, came before Ekadashi ended at 11:35: this day reads Ekadashi.

Cuenca · UTC−5

Sunrise here, 06:22, came after Ekadashi ended at 01:05: this day reads Dwadashi.

The night of Sun 7 Mar ran from sunset 18:31 Sun to sunrise 06:22, 11 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:22 to 18:30, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:30 to 06:22 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 276°40′. It leaves at 07:42, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 324.1° + 279.2° = 603.3°, one full turn and 243.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 21:29, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 11:30, when the lead reaches 318°; Taitila until 21:50.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:22 to 06:22 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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Mar, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 11 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2031, 22:49 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 346.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2088; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1953.