Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Wed 23 May 2040

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 21:09 on Wed 23 May to 19:13 on Thu 24 May, so it touches only Wednesday’s pradosha (20:35–22:15). 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: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 03:58 here. Ekadashi ended at 21:26 Tue, before it. Dwadashi ends at 20:09, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 11 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 22 May ran from sunset 19:34 Tue to sunrise 03:58, 8 h 24 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 33 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 03:58 to 19:35, 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 night here, 19:35 to 03:57 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 173°20′. It leaves at 02:46 Thu, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 38.2° + 173.6° = 211.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 06:31, then Vyatipata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava runs until 08:53, when the lead reaches 138°; Balava until 20:09.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 03:58 to 03:57 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 14 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Jun, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 11 May, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha. This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 11 Apr 2040, 15:00 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 40.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2097; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1962.