Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Sat 29 Dec 1990

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 06:23 on Sat 29 Dec to 02:53 on Sun 30 Dec, so only Saturday’s pradosha (16:00–19:08) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Myjava

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:42 here. Dwadashi ended at 06:23, before it. Trayodashi ends at 02:53 Sun, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:12, came before Dwadashi ended at 10:53: this day reads Dwadashi.

Myjava · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 07:42, came after Dwadashi ended at 06:23: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Fri 28 Dec ran from sunset 15:59 Fri to sunrise 07:42, 15 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 2 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:42 to 16:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 2 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:00 to 07:42 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 57 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 4 at 36°40′. It leaves at 10:24, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 253.5° + 38.3° = 291.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 09:55, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 16:40, when the lead reaches 150°; Taitila until 02:53 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:42 to 07:42 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 16 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 17 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 1990, 21:48 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 271.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2047; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1912.