Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Wed 15 May 2024

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 72°–84° is the 7th, Shukla Saptami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:05 here. Shashthi ended at 05:20 Tue, before it. Saptami ends at 06:49, when the lead reaches 84°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 8 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:30, came after Saptami ended at 04:19: this day reads Ashtami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:05, came before Saptami ended at 06:49: this day reads Saptami.

The night of Tue 14 May ran from sunset 19:22 Tue to sunrise 05:05, 9 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:05 to 19:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:23 to 05:04 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Ashlesha spans 106°40′–120°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 113°20′. It leaves at 17:55, for Magha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 30.3° + 113.5° = 143.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 10:11, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Saptami is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 18:00 Tue, when the lead reached 78°; Vanija runs until 06:49.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:05 to 05:04 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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 14 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Jun, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 8 May, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha. This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 9 Apr 2024, 02:20 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 35.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.