Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Tue 13 Nov 2012

Lakshmi Puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Amavasya runs from 09:43 on Tue 13 Nov to 06:08 on Wed 14 Nov, so only Tuesday’s pradosha (17:05–19:52) falls within it. Every reading takes that day.

Lakshmi Puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:05–19:52. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 17:09 to 18:58.

Diwali: every date in Baoding

The abhyanga bath is taken in arunodaya, the 96 minutes before sunrise. Chaturdashi runs from 13:03 on Mon 12 Nov to 09:43 on Tue 13 Nov, so only Tuesday’s arunodaya (05:22–06:58) falls within it. No text giving Narak Chaturdashi’s time was found; arunodaya is Tithika’s convention.

Narak Chaturdashi: every date in Baoding

Amavasya follows the tithi at sunrise. Amavasya begins at 09:43 on Tue 13 Nov, after that sunrise, and ends at 06:08 on Wed 14 Nov, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Tue 13 Nov. No text giving Amavasya’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Amavasya: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:58 here. Trayodashi ended at 13:03 Mon, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 09:43, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Oct, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Amavasya began at 09:43 and ended at 06:08 Wed, between the sunrises of 06:58 and 06:59 Wed. Tuesday reads Chaturdashi and Wednesday reads Pratipada: Amavasya is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 12 Nov ran from sunset 17:06 Mon to sunrise 06:58, 13 h 52 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:58 to 17:05, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 15 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:05 to 06:59 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 44 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 190°. It leaves at 17:36, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 206.9° + 193.3° = 400.2°, one full turn and 40.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 02:28 Wed, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 23:26 Mon, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 09:43.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:58 to 06:59 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 14 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, begins Kartika. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Kartika here, and Ashwina in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 22:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 228.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.