Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 28 Dec 1978

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 07:33 on Thu 28 Dec to 04:30 on Fri 29 Dec, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:04 Fri–00:56 Fri) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: 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, 07:01 here. Dwadashi ended at 10:02 Wed, before it. Trayodashi ends at 07:33, 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. Chaturdashi began at 07:33 and ended at 04:30 Fri, between the sunrises of 07:01 and 07:01 Fri. Thursday reads Trayodashi and Friday reads Amavasya: Chaturdashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 27 Dec ran from sunset 17:59 Wed to sunrise 07:01, 13 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:01 to 18:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:00 to 07:01 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 226°40′. It leaves at 02:25 Fri, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 252.4° + 228.1° = 480.5°, one full turn and 120.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 02:35 Fri, then Vriddhi.

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 ended at 20:52 Wed, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 07:33.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:01 to 07:01 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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, 30 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 30 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, 20:45 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 258.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.