Panchang in Myshkin, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia Wed 27 Dec 1978

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 07:32 on Wed 27 Dec to 05:03 on Thu 28 Dec, so only Wednesday’s pradosha (15:43–19:12) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Myshkin

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, 09:10 here. Dwadashi ended at 07:32, before it. Trayodashi ends at 05:03 Thu, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 14 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:12, came before Dwadashi ended at 10:02: this day reads Dwadashi.

Myshkin · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 09:10, came after Dwadashi ended at 07:32: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Tue 26 Dec ran from sunset 15:42 Tue to sunrise 09:10, 17 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 9 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 09:10 to 15:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 15:43 to 09:10 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 2 h 10 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 213°20′. It leaves at 02:10 Thu, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 251.6° + 216.5° = 468.1°, one full turn and 108.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 03:47 Thu, then Ganda.

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 18:22, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 05:03 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 09:10 to 09:10 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 29 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1978, 18:15 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 257.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.