Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Sat 26 Apr 2014

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 06:11 on Sat 26 Apr to 04:30 on Sun 27 Apr, so only Saturday’s pradosha (20:07–22:08) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: 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, 06:16 here. Dwadashi ended at 06:11, before it. Trayodashi ends at 04:30 Sun, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:45, came before Dwadashi ended at 15:41: this day reads Dwadashi.

Olean · UTC−4

Sunrise here, 06:16, came after Dwadashi ended at 06:11: this day reads Trayodashi.

The night of Fri 25 Apr ran from sunset 20:06 Fri to sunrise 06:16, 10 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:16 to 20:07, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 43 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:07 to 06:14 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 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 Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 00:32 Sun, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 12° + 336.1° = 348.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 01:25 Sun, then Vishkambha.

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 17:19, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 04:30 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:16 to 06:14 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 13 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 2014, 14:44 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 26.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2071; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1936.