Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Tue 28 Jan 2014

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 03:50 on Tue 28 Jan to 00:19 on Wed 29 Jan, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:23–20:12) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Olean

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 00:19 on Wed 29 Jan to 20:31 on Wed 29 Jan, so it touches only Tuesday night’s nishitha (23:58–00:54 Wed). No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Olean

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, 07:30 here. Dwadashi ended at 03:50, before it. Trayodashi ends at 00:19 Wed, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:11, came before Dwadashi ended at 14:20: this day reads Dwadashi.

Olean · UTC−5

Sunrise here, 07:30, came after Dwadashi ended at 03:50: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Mon 27 Jan ran from sunset 17:21 Mon to sunrise 07:30, 14 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:30 to 17:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:23 to 07:29 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 250°. It leaves at 11:54, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 284.4° + 250.6° = 535°, one full turn and 175°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 00:50 Wed, then Vajra.

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 14:08, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 00:19 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:30 to 07:29 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 30 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 30 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 10 Apr 2013, 05:35 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 287.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2070; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1935.