Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Tue 27 Mar 2029

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 17:23 on Tue 27 Mar to 14:05 on Wed 28 Mar, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (19:19–21:37) 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: 132°–144° is the 12th, Shukla Dwadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:51 here. Ekadashi ended at 20:06 Mon, before it. Dwadashi ends at 17:23, when the lead reaches 144°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Mon 26 Mar ran from sunset 19:18 Mon to sunrise 06:51, 11 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:51 to 19:19, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:19 to 06:50 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 120°. It leaves at 03:49 Wed, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 342.5° + 120.5° = 463°, one full turn and 103°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 12:36, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 06:49, when the lead reached 138°; Balava runs until 17:23.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:51 to 06:50 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Mar 08:19 Thu to 14 Apr 01:40 Sat the Sun stayed in Meena, entering Mesha at 14 Apr 02:24 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Chaitra, before Chaitra itself.

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 15 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 2029, 08:19 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 11.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2086; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1951.