Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 9 Aug 2018

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 00:40 on Thu 9 Aug to 21:15 on Thu 9 Aug, so it touches only Thursday’s pradosha (20:05–22:05). 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 21:15 on Thu 9 Aug to 17:37 on Fri 10 Aug, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:45 Fri–01:25 Fri) 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, 06:04 here. Dwadashi ended at 00:40, before it. Trayodashi ends at 21:15, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 8 Aug ran from sunset 20:07 Wed to sunrise 06:04, 9 h 57 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:04 to 20:05, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:05 to 06:05 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 76°40′. It leaves at 06:54, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 112.3° + 79.5° = 191.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 18:23, then Siddhi.

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 11:00, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 21:15.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:04 to 06:05 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 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 11 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: 17 Mar 2018, 17:11 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 139.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.