Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 12 May 2056

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 15:17 on Fri 12 May to 17:44 on Sat 13 May, so only Friday night’s nishitha (00:36 Sat–01:15 Sat) 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, 05:46 here. Dwadashi ended at 12:52 Thu, before it. Trayodashi ends at 15:17, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 11 May ran from sunset 20:06 Thu to sunrise 05:46, 9 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:46 to 20:07, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:07 to 05:45 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 356°40′. It leaves at 07:32, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 27.4° + 359.1° = 386.5°, one full turn and 26.5°. 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 05:57, then Ayushmana.

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 ended at 02:04, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 15:17.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:46 to 05:45 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 Apr 03:50 Sat to 14 May 20:06 Sun the Sun stayed in Mesha, entering Vrishabha at 14 May 21:13 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Vaishakha, before Vaishakha 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 14 May, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha (Adhik) here, and Vaishakha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2056, 10:52 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 55.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2113; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1978.