Vasant Panchami 2016 in Baoding, Hebei, China Saraswati Puja muhurat 07:12–12:32, Sat 13 Feb
Festival · times in CST
When is Vasant Panchami 2016 in Baoding?
Vasant Panchami Saraswati Puja muhurat: what time?
Why is Vasant Panchami on Sat 13 Feb in Baoding?
Vasant Panchami is on Sat 13 Feb: Panchami holds more of purvahna that morning than on Fri 12 Feb.
Chaturthi until 11:47, inside purvahna; then Panchami. Panchami: 11:47 to 09:10 Sat.
Panchami holds purvahna only until 09:10; then Shashthi. Panchami: 11:47 Fri to 09:10.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+8). Band: the tithi. Box: Purvahna. Light strip: day; dark strip: night. Sun: sunrise.
Saraswati Puja is done in purvahna, the first half of the day. Panchami runs from 11:47 on Fri 12 Feb to 09:10 on Sat 13 Feb, touching purvahna on both mornings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning it holds more of: Sat 13 Feb. No text giving Vasant Panchami’s time was found; purvahna is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Magha Shukla Panchami
Saraswati Puja is done in purvahna, the first half of the day.
- Smarta
- the morning whose purvahna Panchami holds: Tithika’s convention, since no text gives the time.
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.