Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Mon 15 Oct 2001

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 03:52 on Mon 15 Oct to 00:32 on Tue 16 Oct, so it touches only Monday night’s nishitha (00:09 Tue–01:02 Tue). 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: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:09 here. Trayodashi ended at 03:52, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 00:32 Tue, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:21, came before Trayodashi ended at 07:22: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 04:02 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

Myjava · UTC+2

Sunrise here, 07:09, came after Trayodashi ended at 03:52: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Sun 14 Oct ran from sunset 18:02 Sun to sunrise 07:09, 13 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:09 to 18:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:00 to 07:11 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 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′. Uttara Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 153°20′. It leaves at 13:40, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 178° + 156° = 334°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 02:17 Tue, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 14:11, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 00:32 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:09 to 07:11 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Sep 12:27 Mon to 16 Oct 21:23 Tue the Sun stayed in Kanya, entering Tula at 17 Oct 06:37 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashwina, before Ashwina 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 16 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina (Adhik) here, and Ashwina (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2001, 03:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 197.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.