Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Sun 6 Mar 2011

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 0°–12° is the 1st, Shukla Pratipada. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:44 here. Amavasya ended at 04:45 Sat, before it. Pratipada ends at 07:13, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 5 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 04:45 Sat, before sunrise at 06:45 Sat, and ends at 07:13, after the next sunrise at 06:44. Both days read Pratipada: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:41, came after Pratipada ended at 04:43: this day reads Dwitiya.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 06:44, came before Pratipada ended at 07:13: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Sat 5 Mar ran from sunset 18:14 Sat to sunrise 06:44, 12 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:44 to 18:15, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:15 to 06:42 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 330°. It leaves at 07:52, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 321° + 332.8° = 653.8°, one full turn and 293.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 06:48 Mon, then Shukla.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Pratipada is Kinstughna and the second Bava. Kinstughna ended at 17:58 Sat, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 07:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:44 to 06:42 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Apr, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 5 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 16 Mar 2010, 05:01 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 349.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2067; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1932.