Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 24 Jun 2015

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:53 here. Shashthi ended at 03:16 Tue, before it. Saptami ends at 05:46, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 03:16 Tue, before sunrise at 04:53 Tue, and ends at 05:46, after the next sunrise at 04:53. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:24, came after Saptami ended at 03:16: this day reads Ashtami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:53, came before Saptami ended at 05:46: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Tue 23 Jun ran from sunset 19:47 Tue to sunrise 04:53, 9 h 6 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:53 to 19:47, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:47 to 04:53 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Uttara Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 150°. It leaves at 21:57, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 68° + 151.6° = 219.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 18:09, then Variyana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 16:30 Tue, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 05:46.

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

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jun 22:05 Tue to 16 Jul 09:24 Thu the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 17 Jul 06:32 Fri, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha itself.

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 16 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 17:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 92.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.