Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 25 Aug 2023

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 84°–96° is the 8th, Shukla Ashtami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:40 here. Saptami ended at 06:01 Thu, before it. Ashtami ends at 05:41, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 16 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Navami began at 05:41 and ended at 04:32 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:40 and 05:40 Sat. Friday reads Ashtami and Saturday reads Dashami: Navami is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:55, came after Ashtami ended at 03:11: this day reads Navami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:40, came before Ashtami ended at 05:41: this day reads Ashtami. Navami ends at 04:32 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Navami: it is kshaya.

The night of Thu 24 Aug ran from sunset 19:01 Thu to sunrise 05:40, 10 h 39 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:40 to 18:59, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:59 to 05:40 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 220°. It leaves at 11:44, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 127.3° + 223.3° = 350.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 21:20, then Vishkambha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ashtami is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 17:57 Thu, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 05:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:40 to 05:40 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana 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 150.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.