Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 25 Feb 1983

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 23:08 on Thu 24 Feb to 19:48 on Fri 25 Feb, so it touches only Friday’s pradosha (18:46–21:20). No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:41 here. Dwadashi ended at 23:08 Thu, before it. Trayodashi ends at 19:48, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 13 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 24 Feb ran from sunset 18:44 Thu to sunrise 07:41, 12 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:41 to 18:46, 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, 18:46 to 07:39 Sat, 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 100°. It leaves at 16:17, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 312.3° + 101.3° = 413.6°, one full turn and 53.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 03:13 Sat, then Atiganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 09:29, when the lead reaches 150°; Taitila until 19:48.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:41 to 07:39 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 04:31 Sun to 14 Mar 21:43 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 22:44 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 13 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 14:17 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 331.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.