The start of the night
Sanskrit pradosha: the hours just after sunset.
The twilight hours after sunset. A fortnightly vow to Shiva is kept at Pradosha on the thirteenth day.
Pradosh Vrat honors Shiva and Parvati during twilight on Trayodashi, the thirteenth lunar day believed to dissolve karmic burdens and bring inner peace.
What a stotra is, the forms it takes, and forty-five hymns arranged by the deity each one praises, with the best known linked where the story mentions them.
Tradition says Ravana composed the Shiva Tandava Stotram beneath Mount Kailash, where Shiva's toe humbled his pride and his song won Shiva's grace.
The Skanda Purana katha of the merchant Sadhu and his daughter Kalavati, recited during the Satyanarayan Vrat puja to Lord Vishnu.
The story of Parvati’s twelve-year penance in the Himalayas to win Lord Shiva as her husband, and why married women keep the rigorous waterless Hartalika Teej fast on Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya.
Hartalika Teej worship in order, from the sand idols and sankalp to the night vigil and breaking the fast, with printed mantras and what no early text says.