Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 14 Aug 2008

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 23:16 on Wed 13 Aug to 00:46 on Fri 15 Aug, so only Thursday’s pradosha (20:58–23:01) falls within it. 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: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:09 here. Dwadashi ended at 23:16 Wed, before it. Trayodashi ends at 00:46 Fri, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 1 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 13 Aug ran from sunset 21:00 Wed to sunrise 07:09, 10 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:09 to 20:58, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 43 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:58 to 07:10 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 16 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′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 263°20′. It leaves at 09:41, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 117.7° + 265.4° = 383.1°, one full turn and 23.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 13:42, then Ayushmana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava runs until 12:05, when the lead reaches 150°; Taitila until 00:46 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:09 to 07:10 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 31 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana in both counts.

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 124.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2065; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1930.