Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Wed 14 Oct 2020

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 08:21 on Wed 14 Oct to 05:03 on Thu 15 Oct, so only Wednesday’s pradosha (18:01–20:39) 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: 312°–324° is the 27th, Krishna Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:08 here. Ekadashi ended at 11:06 Tue, before it. Dwadashi ends at 08:21, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Trayodashi began at 08:21 and ended at 05:03 Thu, between the sunrises of 07:08 and 07:10 Thu. Wednesday reads Dwadashi and Thursday reads Chaturdashi: Trayodashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 13 Oct ran from sunset 18:03 Tue to sunrise 07:08, 13 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:08 to 18:01, 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, 18:01 to 07:10 Thu, 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 140°. It leaves at 17:10, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 177.2° + 140.5° = 317.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 10:43, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 21:48 Tue, when the lead reached 318°; Taitila runs until 08:21.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:08 to 07:10 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Sep 13:00 Thu to 16 Oct 21:31 Fri the Sun stayed in Kanya, entering Tula at 17 Oct 03:35 Sat, 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: 24 Mar 2020, 10:28 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 197.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2077; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1942.