Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Wed 17 Dec 2025

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 20:27 on Tue 16 Dec to 23:03 on Wed 17 Dec, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Wed 17 Dec. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Libode

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 23:03 on Wed 17 Dec to 01:29 on Fri 19 Dec, holding as much of nishitha on both nights. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier: Wed 17 Dec. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Libode

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, 04:54 here. Dwadashi ended at 20:27 Tue, before it. Trayodashi ends at 23:03, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 5 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 16 Dec ran from sunset 19:05 Tue to sunrise 04:54, 9 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:54 to 19:06, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:06 to 04:54 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 206°40′. It leaves at 13:41, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 241.2° + 209° = 450.2°, one full turn and 90.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 10:46, then Dhriti.

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 09:46, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 23:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:54 to 04:54 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 20 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2025, 12:57 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 256.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.