Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Sat 28 Oct 2023

Sharad Purnima’s night centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Purnima runs from 06:47 on Sat 28 Oct to 04:24 on Sun 29 Oct, so only Saturday night’s nishitha (23:35–00:28 Sun) falls within it. No text giving Sharad Purnima’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Sharad Purnima: every date in Baoding

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima begins at 06:47 on Sat 28 Oct, after that sunrise, and ends at 04:24 on Sun 29 Oct, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Sat 28 Oct. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:40 here. Trayodashi ended at 09:27 Fri, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 06:47, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 06:47 and ended at 04:24 Sun, between the sunrises of 06:40 and 06:41 Sun. Saturday reads Chaturdashi and Sunday reads Pratipada: Purnima is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:29, came after Chaturdashi ended at 04:17: this day reads Purnima.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 06:40, came before Chaturdashi ended at 06:47: this day reads Chaturdashi. Purnima ends at 04:24 Sun, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Purnima: it is kshaya.

The night of Fri 27 Oct ran from sunset 17:24 Fri to sunrise 06:40, 13 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:40 to 17:23, 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 night here, 17:23 to 06:41 Sun, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 356°40′. It leaves at 10:01, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 190.1° + 358° = 548.1°, one full turn and 188.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 01:21 Sun, then Siddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 20:06 Fri, when the lead reached 162°; Vanija runs until 06:47.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:40 to 06:41 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

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 18 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Nov, 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 15 Oct, 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: 22 Mar 2023, 01:23 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 213.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.