Panchang in Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria Thu 10 Jan 2013

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 04:31 on Thu 10 Jan to 01:06 on Fri 11 Jan, so only Thursday night’s nishitha (00:04 Fri–01:03 Fri) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Sofia

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:56 here. Trayodashi ended at 04:31, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 01:06 Fri, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:15, came before Trayodashi ended at 08:01: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 04:36 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

Sofia · UTC+2

Sunrise here, 07:56, came after Trayodashi ended at 04:31: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Wed 9 Jan ran from sunset 17:11 Wed to sunrise 07:56, 14 h 45 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 59 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:56 to 17:12, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:12 to 07:55 Fri, 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′. Mula spans 240°00′–253°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 243°20′. It leaves at 22:41, for Purva Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 266.1° + 244.1° = 510.2°, one full turn and 150.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 22:35, then Vyaghata.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti runs until 14:49, when the lead reaches 342°; Shakuni until 01:06 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:56 to 07:55 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 11 Jan, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 16:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 287.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.