Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 28 Jun 2091

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 14:42 on Thu 28 Jun to 12:01 on Fri 29 Jun, so only Thursday’s pradosha (19:11–21:19) 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: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:54 here. Ekadashi ended at 17:26 Wed, before it. Dwadashi ends at 14:42, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 27 Jun ran from sunset 19:10 Wed to sunrise 05:54, 10 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:54 to 19:11, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:11 to 05:54 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 210°. It leaves at 10:31, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 71.5° + 210.5° = 282°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 23:26, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 04:04, when the lead reached 138°; Balava runs until 14:42.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:54 to 05:54 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Jun 08:12 Sun to 16 Jul 19:47 Mon the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 17 Jul 15:22 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha 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 17 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2091, 09:17 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 96.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2148; Shaka Samvat numbers it 2013.