Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Fri 10 Apr 1964

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 20:37 on Thu 9 Apr to 18:51 on Fri 10 Apr, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Fri 10 Apr. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Myjava

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 18:51 on Fri 10 Apr to 16:28 on Sat 11 Apr, so only Friday night’s nishitha (23:29–00:11 Sat) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Myjava

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, 05:09 here. Dwadashi ended at 20:37 Thu, before it. Trayodashi ends at 18:51, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 9 Apr ran from sunset 18:32 Thu to sunrise 05:09, 10 h 37 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:09 to 18:33, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 40 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:33 to 05:07 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 19 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 323°20′. It leaves at 18:31, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 357° + 325.5° = 682.5°, one full turn and 322.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 22:28, then Indra.

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 07:49, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 18:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:09 to 05:07 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 Mar 03:13 Sat to 12 Apr 13:37 Sun the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 13 Apr 07:22 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra 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 12 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) here, and Chaitra (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 14 Mar 1964, 03:13 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 26.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2021; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1886.