Panchang in Polatlı, Ankara, Turkey Tue 13 Jun 2000

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi began at 19:39 on Tue 13 Jun, before that evening’s pradosha, and ended at 21:14 on Wed 14 Jun, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening Trayodashi fills: Tue 13 Jun. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Polatlı

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, 05:23 here. Ekadashi ended at 18:28 Mon, before it. Dwadashi ends at 19:39, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 12 Jun ran from sunset 20:19 Mon to sunrise 05:23, 9 h 4 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:23 to 20:20, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:20 to 05:23 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 193°20′. It leaves at 13:37, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 58.5° + 195.8° = 254.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 03:46 Wed, then Siddha.

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 runs until 07:00, when the lead reaches 138°; Balava until 19:39.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:23 to 05:23 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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 14 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Jul, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 2 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha. This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 4 Apr 2000, 21:12 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 67.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2057; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1922.