Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 12 Apr 1972

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 07:52 on Wed 12 Apr to 04:20 on Thu 13 Apr, so only Wednesday night’s nishitha (00:38 Thu–01:22 Thu) 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: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:26 here. Dwadashi ended at 10:57 Tue, before it. Trayodashi ends at 07:52, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturdashi began at 07:52 and ended at 04:20 Thu, between the sunrises of 06:26 and 06:24 Thu. Wednesday reads Trayodashi and Thursday reads Amavasya: Chaturdashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 11 Apr ran from sunset 19:34 Tue to sunrise 06:26, 10 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:26 to 19:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:35 to 06:24 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 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 Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 02:41 Thu, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 358.8° + 334° = 692.8°, one full turn and 332.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 07:15, then Indra.

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 ended at 21:29 Tue, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 07:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:26 to 06:24 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 13 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 14 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1972, 15:34 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 27.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2029; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1894.