Panchang in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa Sun 6 Dec 2026

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 21:22 on Sat 5 Dec to 22:52 on Sun 6 Dec, so only Sunday’s pradosha (18:59–20:58) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Maclear

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 22:52 on Sun 6 Dec to 00:43 on Tue 8 Dec, holding as much of nishitha on both nights. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier: Sun 6 Dec. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Maclear

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, 04:55 here. Dwadashi ended at 21:22 Sat, before it. Trayodashi ends at 22:52, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 24 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sat 5 Dec ran from sunset 18:59 Sat to sunrise 04:55, 9 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:55 to 18:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:59 to 04:55 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 10:08, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 229.8° + 197.3° = 427.1°, one full turn and 67.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 04:16 Mon, then Sukarma.

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 10:04, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 22:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:55 to 04:55 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 9 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika 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 255.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2083; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1948.