Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Thu 15 Sep 2016

Anant Chaturdashi follows the tithi at sunrise. Chaturdashi begins at 07:57 on Thu 15 Sep, after that sunrise, and ends at 05:45 on Fri 16 Sep, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Thu 15 Sep. No text giving Anant Chaturdashi’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Anant Chaturdashi: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 144°–156° is the 13th, Shukla Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:59 here. Dwadashi ended at 09:32 Wed, before it. Trayodashi ends at 07:57, when the lead reaches 156°. 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. Chaturdashi began at 07:57 and ended at 05:45 Fri, between the sunrises of 05:59 and 06:00 Fri. Thursday reads Trayodashi and Friday reads Purnima: Chaturdashi is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:06, came after Trayodashi ended at 05:27: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:59, came before Trayodashi ended at 07:57: this day reads Trayodashi. Chaturdashi ends at 05:45 Fri, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Chaturdashi: it is kshaya.

The night of Wed 14 Sep ran from sunset 18:27 Wed to sunrise 05:59, 11 h 32 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:59 to 18:26, 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 night here, 18:26 to 06:00 Fri, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 11:40, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 148.4° + 303.4° = 451.8°, one full turn and 91.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 08:30, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Kaulava and the second Taitila. Kaulava ended at 20:50 Wed, when the lead reached 150°; Taitila runs until 07:57.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:59 to 06:00 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 154.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2073; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1938.