Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 16 Nov 2044

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 18:49 on Wed 16 Nov to 18:59 on Thu 17 Nov, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Wed 16 Nov. 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: 312°–324° is the 27th, Krishna Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:37 here. Ekadashi ended at 19:01 Tue, before it. Dwadashi ends at 18:49, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 5 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 15 Nov ran from sunset 17:50 Tue to sunrise 06:37, 12 h 47 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:37 to 17:50, 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, 17:50 to 06:38 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 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 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 16:57, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 209.8° + 167.7° = 377.5°, one full turn and 17.5°. 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 22:12, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 06:52, when the lead reaches 318°; Taitila until 18:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:37 to 06:38 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 19 Nov, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 29 Mar 2044, 14:56 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 224.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2101; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1966.