Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Tue 8 Aug 2023

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 252°–264° is the 22nd, Krishna Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:24 here. Shashthi ended at 07:50 Mon, before it. Saptami ends at 06:44, when the lead reaches 264°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:46, came after Saptami ended at 04:14: this day reads Ashtami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:24, came before Saptami ended at 06:44: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Mon 7 Aug ran from sunset 19:23 Mon to sunrise 05:24, 10 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 40 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:24 to 19:22, 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 night here, 19:22 to 05:25 Wed, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 13°20′. It leaves at 04:02 Wed, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 110.9° + 14.2° = 125.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 19:11, then Vriddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 19:12 Mon, when the lead reached 258°; Bava runs until 06:44.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:24 to 05:25 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Jul 02:31 Tue to 16 Aug 17:38 Wed the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 16:02 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana itself.

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 16 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

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 134.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.