Panchang in Diffa, Niger Thu 1 Oct 2009

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 04:34 on Thu 1 Oct to 06:01 on Fri 2 Oct, so only Thursday’s pradosha (17:59–20:23) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:58 here. Dwadashi ended at 04:34, before it. Trayodashi ends at 06:01 Fri, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Trayodashi began at 04:34, before sunrise at 05:58, and ends at 06:01 Fri, after the next sunrise at 05:58 Fri. Both days read Trayodashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:14, came before Dwadashi ended at 09:04: this day reads Dwadashi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:58, came after Dwadashi ended at 04:34: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Wed 30 Sep ran from sunset 18:00 Wed to sunrise 05:58, 11 h 58 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:58 to 17:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:59 to 05:58 Fri, 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 306°40′. It leaves at 03:48 Fri, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 164.2° + 308.8° = 473°, one full turn and 113°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 18:42, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 17:22, when the lead reaches 150°; Taitila until 06:01 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:58 to 05:58 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Oct, 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 18 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2009, 17:05 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 182.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2066; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1931.