Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 29 Jul 2008

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 23:49 on Tue 29 Jul to 20:47 on Wed 30 Jul, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Tue 29 Jul. 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: 312°–324° is the 27th, Krishna Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:54 here. Ekadashi ended at 02:51, before it. Dwadashi ends at 23:49, when the lead reaches 324°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 18 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 28 Jul ran from sunset 21:18 Mon to sunrise 06:54, 9 h 36 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:54 to 21:17, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:17 to 06:55 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 53°20′. It leaves at 23:14, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 102.3° + 56.6° = 158.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 08:25, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 13:21, when the lead reaches 318°; Taitila until 23:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:54 to 06:55 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 1 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 6 Apr 2008, 08:55 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 109.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.