Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Thu 8 Sep 2016

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, 05:53 here. Shashthi ended at 04:33, before it. Saptami ends at 06:49 Fri, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 1 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Saptami began at 04:33, before sunrise at 05:53, and ends at 06:49 Fri, after the next sunrise at 05:53 Fri. Both days read Saptami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 7 Sep ran from sunset 18:39 Wed to sunrise 05:53, 11 h 14 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:53 to 18:37, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:37 to 05:53 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 213°20′. It leaves at 06:56 Fri, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 141.6° + 214.2° = 355.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 13:42, then Vishkambha.

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 runs until 17:43, when the lead reaches 78°; Vanija until 06:49 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:53 to 05:53 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

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 1 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada. This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 2016, 19:23 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 147.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2073; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1938.