Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 18 Oct 1998

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 10:17 on Sun 18 Oct to 12:39 on Mon 19 Oct, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (01:19 Mon–02:11 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: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:13 here. Dwadashi ended at 08:07 Sat, before it. Trayodashi ends at 10:17, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Trayodashi began at 08:07 Sat, before sunrise at 08:12 Sat, and ends at 10:17, after the next sunrise at 08:13. Both days read Trayodashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Sat 17 Oct ran from sunset 19:17 Sat to sunrise 08:13, 12 h 56 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 51 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:13 to 19:16, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:16 to 08:14 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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 16:44, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 180.7° + 155.8° = 336.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 03:10 Mon, then Vaidhriti.

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 21:10 Sat, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 10:17.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:13 to 08:14 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, 20 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 20 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: 28 Mar 1998, 07:13 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 197.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.