Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Sat 13 Jun 2026

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 12:38 on Sat 13 Jun to 08:50 on Sun 14 Jun, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (23:36–00:31 Sun) falls within it. 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, 07:00 here. Dwadashi ended at 16:07 Fri, before it. Trayodashi ends at 12:38, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Fri 12 Jun ran from sunset 17:07 Fri to sunrise 07:00, 13 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:00 to 17:07, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:07 to 07:00 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 44 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 30°. It leaves at 21:47, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 58° + 30.7° = 88.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 13:58, 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 ended at 02:25, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 12:38.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:00 to 07:00 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 May 22:01 Sat to 15 Jun 04:54 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 09:22 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 15 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2026, 03:23 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 83.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2083; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1948.