Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 1 Nov 1994

Dhanteras puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 05:06 on Tue 1 Nov to 02:07 on Wed 2 Nov, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:55–20:26) falls within it. No text giving Dhanteras’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:55–20:26. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 18:45 to 20:26.

Dhanteras: every date in Pāthardi

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 05:06 on Tue 1 Nov to 02:07 on Wed 2 Nov, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:55–20:26) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Pāthardi

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 02:07 on Wed 2 Nov to 22:43 on Wed 2 Nov, between the two nights’ nishitha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Tue 1 Nov. 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, 06:29 here. Dwadashi ended at 05:06, before it. Trayodashi ends at 02:07 Wed, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 19 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 31 Oct ran from sunset 17:56 Mon to sunrise 06:29, 12 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:29 to 17:55, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:55 to 06:29 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 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 07:31, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 194.6° + 159.4° = 354°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 15:45, 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 15:40, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 02:07 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:29 to 06:29 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 3 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 11 Apr 1994, 05:47 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 197.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2051; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1916.