Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 28 Jun 2023

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 96°–108° is the 9th, Shukla Navami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:54 here. Ashtami ended at 04:35 Tue, before it. Navami ends at 05:35, when the lead reaches 108°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 04:35 Tue, before sunrise at 04:54 Tue, and ends at 05:35, after the next sunrise at 04:54. Both days read Navami: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:25, came after Navami ended at 03:05: this day reads Dashami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:54, came before Navami ended at 05:35: this day reads Navami.

The night of Tue 27 Jun ran from sunset 19:47 Tue to sunrise 04:54, 9 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:54 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 04:55 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 18:30, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 71.8° + 179.4° = 251.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 08:37, then Shiva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Navami is Balava and the second Kaulava. Balava ended at 17:10 Tue, when the lead reached 102°; Kaulava runs until 05:35.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:54 to 04:55 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 17 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 18 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 18 Jun, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2023, 01:23 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 95.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.