Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Sun 19 Feb 2012

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 04:38 on Sun 19 Feb to 04:04 on Mon 20 Feb, so only Sunday’s pradosha (18:34–21:00) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Thazhecode

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, 06:45 here. Dwadashi ended at 04:38, before it. Trayodashi ends at 04:04 Mon, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 8 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sat 18 Feb ran from sunset 18:33 Sat to sunrise 06:45, 12 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:45 to 18:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:34 to 06:45 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 23:15, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 305.8° + 270.9° = 576.7°, one full turn and 216.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 23:37, then Variyana.

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 16:18, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 04:04 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:45 to 06:45 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 22 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 20:02 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 316.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.