Panchang in Diffa, Niger Mon 1 Feb 2038

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 05:51 on Mon 1 Feb to 05:46 on Tue 2 Feb, so only Monday’s pradosha (18:10–20:39) 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: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:36 here. Dwadashi ended at 05:51, before it. Trayodashi ends at 05:46 Tue, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:09, came before Dwadashi ended at 10:21: this day reads Dwadashi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:36, came after Dwadashi ended at 05:51: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Sun 31 Jan ran from sunset 18:09 Sun to sunrise 06:36, 12 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:36 to 18:10, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:10 to 06:35 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 250°. It leaves at 08:14, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 288.1° + 252.4° = 540.5°, one full turn and 180.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 17:05, then Vajra.

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 17:45, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 05:46 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:36 to 06:35 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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 4 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2037, 00:36 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 315.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2094; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1959.