Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 17 Oct 1971

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 06:55 on Sun 17 Oct to 09:28 on Mon 18 Oct, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (00:19 Mon–01:11 Mon) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:12 here. Trayodashi ended at 06:55, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 09:28 Mon, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 4 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturdashi began at 06:55, before sunrise at 07:12, and ends at 09:28 Mon, after the next sunrise at 07:13 Mon. Both days read Chaturdashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:22, came before Trayodashi ended at 08:25: this day reads Trayodashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:12, came after Trayodashi ended at 06:55: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Sat 16 Oct ran from sunset 18:19 Sat to sunrise 07:12, 12 h 53 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:12 to 18:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:18 to 07:13 Mon, 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′. Uttara Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 153°20′. It leaves at 15:49, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 179.6° + 155.8° = 335.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 04:19 Mon, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 20:12, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 09:28 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:12 to 07:13 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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, 19 Oct, 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 19 Oct, 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: 26 Mar 1971, 23:23 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 197.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2028; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1893.