Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Tue 12 Dec 2023

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 336°–348° is the 29th, Krishna Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:26 here. Trayodashi ended at 09:40 Mon, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 08:54, when the lead reaches 348°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:03, came after Chaturdashi ended at 06:24: this day reads Amavasya.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 07:26, came before Chaturdashi ended at 08:54: this day reads Chaturdashi.

The night of Mon 11 Dec ran from sunset 16:55 Mon to sunrise 07:26, 14 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:26 to 16:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:56 to 07:27 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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 14:26, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 235.5° + 222.7° = 458.2°, one full turn and 98.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 21:21, then Shula.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Vishti and the second Shakuni. Vishti ended at 21:22 Mon, when the lead reached 342°; Shakuni runs until 08:54.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:26 to 07:27 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 17 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 13 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika 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 258.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.