Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 12 Oct 2004

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 09:52 on Tue 12 Oct to 09:06 on Wed 13 Oct, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (01:21 Wed–02:12 Wed) 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, 08:07 here. Dwadashi ended at 10:00 Mon, before it. Trayodashi ends at 09:52, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 11 Oct ran from sunset 19:25 Mon to sunrise 08:07, 12 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:07 to 19:24, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:24 to 08:08 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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 2 at 150°. It leaves at 01:33 Wed, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 175.2° + 150.3° = 325.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 21:13, 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 22:01 Mon, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 09:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:07 to 08:08 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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, 14 Oct, 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 14 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2004, 02:41 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 198.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.