Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 7 Feb 1986

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 08:34 on Fri 7 Feb to 06:34 on Sat 8 Feb, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:46 Sat–01:41 Sat) 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, 08:03 here. Dwadashi ended at 10:48 Thu, before it. Trayodashi ends at 08:34, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Chaturdashi began at 08:34 and ended at 06:34 Sat, between the sunrises of 08:03 and 08:02 Sat. Friday reads Trayodashi and Saturday reads Amavasya: Chaturdashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 6 Feb ran from sunset 18:23 Thu to sunrise 08:03, 13 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 54 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:03 to 18:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 17 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:24 to 08:02 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 42 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 Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 00:48 Sat, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 294.4° + 270.1° = 564.5°, one full turn and 204.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 21:57, then Vyatipata.

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 21:40 Thu, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 08:34.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:03 to 08:02 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 9 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 1985, 15:58 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 317.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2042; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1907.