Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 19 Nov 2010

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 18:56 on Thu 18 Nov to 20:17 on Fri 19 Nov, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Fri 19 Nov. 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, 07:50 here. Dwadashi ended at 18:56 Thu, before it. Trayodashi ends at 20:17, when the lead reaches 156°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Nov, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 18 Nov ran from sunset 17:40 Thu to sunrise 07:50, 14 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 56 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:50 to 17:39, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:39 to 07:51 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 04:10 Sat, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 212.7° + 2.8° = 215.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 03:48 Sat, then Variyana.

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 ended at 07:40, when the lead reached 150°; Taitila runs until 20:17.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:50 to 07:51 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 6 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2010, 01:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 241.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.