Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 5 Oct 2022

Dussehra’s rites are done in aparahna, the fourth fifth of the day. Dashami runs from 16:51 on Tue 4 Oct to 14:30 on Wed 5 Oct, so it touches only Wednesday’s aparahna (13:16–15:35).

Dussehra: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:17 here. Navami ended at 16:51 Tue, before it. Dashami ends at 14:30, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 4 Oct ran from sunset 17:56 Tue to sunrise 06:17, 12 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:17 to 17:55, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:55 to 06:18 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 280°. It leaves at 23:45, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 167.5° + 282.9° = 450.4°, one full turn and 90.4°. 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 10:50, then Dhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 03:41, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 14:30.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:17 to 06:18 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 25 Oct, 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 26 Sep, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 1 Apr 2022, 14:24 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 180.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2079; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1944.