Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 13 Nov 1963

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 05:05 on Wed 13 Nov to 07:19 on Thu 14 Nov, so only Wednesday’s pradosha (17:51–20:24) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Pāthardi

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, 06:35 here. Dwadashi ended at 05:05, before it. Trayodashi ends at 07:19 Thu, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 1 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Trayodashi began at 05:05, before sunrise at 06:35, and ends at 07:19 Thu, after the next sunrise at 06:35 Thu. Both days read Trayodashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 12 Nov ran from sunset 17:51 Tue to sunrise 06:35, 12 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:35 to 17:51, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:51 to 06:35 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 170°. It leaves at 10:43, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 206.6° + 171.3° = 377.9°, one full turn and 17.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 22:52, then Ayushmana.

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 18:10, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 07:19 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:35 to 06:35 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Oct 18:12 Thu to 16 Nov 12:20 Sat the Sun stayed in Tula, entering Vrishchika at 16 Nov 16:09 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Kartika, before Kartika itself.

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 16 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika (Adhik) here, and Kartika (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1963, 17:39 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 225.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.