Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 26 Jan 2022

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 264°–276° is the 23rd, Krishna Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:29 here. Saptami ended at 10:19 Tue, before it. Ashtami ends at 08:55, when the lead reaches 276°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 18 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 08:55 and ended at 07:04 Thu, between the sunrises of 07:29 and 07:28 Thu. Wednesday reads Ashtami and Thursday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:12, came after Ashtami ended at 06:25: this day reads Navami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 07:29, came before Ashtami ended at 08:55: this day reads Ashtami. Navami ends at 07:04 Thu, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Navami: it is kshaya.

The night of Tue 25 Jan ran from sunset 17:30 Tue to sunrise 07:29, 13 h 59 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 55 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:29 to 17:31, 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, 17:31 to 07:28 Thu, 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 4 at 196°40′. It leaves at 12:36, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 281.8° + 197° = 478.8°, one full turn and 118.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 09:21, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 21:40 Tue, when the lead reached 270°; Kaulava runs until 08:55.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:29 to 07:28 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 12 Apr 2021, 10:30 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 283.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2078; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1943.