Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 30 Aug 2001

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi began at 19:22 on Thu 30 Aug, before that evening’s pradosha, and ended at 21:48 on Fri 31 Aug, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening Trayodashi fills: Thu 30 Aug. 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: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:25 here. Ekadashi ended at 17:06 Wed, before it. Dwadashi ends at 19:22, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 29 Aug ran from sunset 20:37 Wed to sunrise 07:25, 10 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:25 to 20:35, 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, 20:35 to 07:26 Fri, 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 Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 00:37 Fri, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 132.9° + 271.5° = 404.4°, one full turn and 44.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 00:05 Fri, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 06:12, when the lead reached 138°; Balava runs until 19:22.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:25 to 07:26 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Sep, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 2001, 06:21 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 152.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2058; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1923.