Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Mon 7 Mar 2016

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 13:20 on Mon 7 Mar to 10:34 on Tue 8 Mar, so only Monday night’s nishitha (00:12 Tue–01:00 Tue) falls within it.

Maha Shivratri: every date in Thazhecode

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 13:20 on Mon 7 Mar to 10:34 on Tue 8 Mar, so only Monday night’s nishitha (00:12 Tue–01:00 Tue) falls within it. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: 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, 06:37 here. Dwadashi ended at 15:35 Sun, before it. Trayodashi ends at 13:20, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 22 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 6 Mar ran from sunset 18:36 Sun to sunrise 06:37, 12 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:37 to 18:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:36 to 06:37 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 293°20′. It leaves at 01:52 Tue, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 322.8° + 295.1° = 617.9°, one full turn and 257.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 20:17, then Siddha.

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 02:32, when the lead reached 330°; Vanija runs until 13:20.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:37 to 06:37 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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, 9 Mar, 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 9 Mar, 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: 20 Mar 2015, 15:06 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 347.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.