Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Wed 11 Aug 1920

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 10:33 on Wed 11 Aug to 07:13 on Thu 12 Aug, so only Wednesday’s pradosha (18:01–20:32) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Ipameri

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, 06:34 here. Ekadashi ended at 13:42 Tue, before it. Dwadashi ends at 10:33, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 10 Aug ran from sunset 18:01 Tue to sunrise 06:34, 12 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:34 to 18:01, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:01 to 06:33 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 76°40′. It leaves at 10:53, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 115.6° + 77.3° = 192.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 17:15, then Siddhi.

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 ended at 00:09, when the lead reached 318°; Taitila runs until 10:33.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:34 to 06:33 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Jul 17:24 Thu to 14 Aug 00:43 Sat the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 15 Aug 19:42 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana itself.

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 14 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 1920, 07:55 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 138.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1977; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1842.