Panchang in Myshkin, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia Sun 7 May 2017

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi began at 19:12 on Sun 7 May, before that evening’s pradosha, and ended at 20:46 on Mon 8 May, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening Trayodashi fills: Sun 7 May. 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: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:20 here. Ekadashi ended at 18:00 Sat, before it. Dwadashi ends at 19:12, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 6 May ran from sunset 20:24 Sat to sunrise 04:20, 7 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 31 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:20 to 20:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 2 h 0 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:26 to 04:18 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 59 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 4 at 156°40′. It leaves at 05:14, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 22.6° + 159.5° = 182.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 12:30, then Vajra.

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 06:33, when the lead reaches 138°; Balava until 19:12.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:20 to 04:18 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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, 25 May, 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 26 Apr, 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: 28 Mar 2017, 05:57 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 39.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2074; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1939.