Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 3 Jun 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, 04:54 here. Amavasya ended at 05:02 Thu, before it. Pratipada ends at 05:28, when the lead reaches 12°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:23, came after Pratipada ended at 02:58: this day reads Dwitiya.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:54, came before Pratipada ended at 05:28: this day reads Pratipada.

The night of Thu 2 Jun ran from sunset 19:37 Thu to sunrise 04:54, 9 h 17 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:54 to 19:38, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:38 to 04:53 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 56°40′. It leaves at 17:52, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 48° + 59.7° = 107.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 02:12 Sat, then Ganda.

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 17:18 Thu, when the lead reached 6°; Bava runs until 05:28.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:54 to 04:53 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 15 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Jul, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 2 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha. This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 22:32 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 58.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.