Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 11 Dec 2012

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 23:22 on Mon 10 Dec to 20:02 on Tue 11 Dec, so it touches only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:33–20:29). No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Sevan

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 20:02 on Tue 11 Dec to 16:25 on Wed 12 Dec, so only Tuesday night’s nishitha (00:24 Wed–01:23 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, 08:13 here. Dwadashi ended at 23:22 Mon, before it. Trayodashi ends at 20:02, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Mon 10 Dec ran from sunset 17:33 Mon to sunrise 08:13, 14 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:13 to 17:33, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:33 to 08:14 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 203°20′. It leaves at 22:11, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 235.5° + 204.6° = 440.1°, one full turn and 80.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 04:01 Wed, then Dhriti.

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 runs until 09:45, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 20:02.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:13 to 08:14 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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 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 13 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 18:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 257.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.