Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Mon 24 Jun 2024

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 192°–204° is the 17th, Krishna Dwitiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:53 here. Pratipada ended at 07:43 Sun, before it. Dwitiya ends at 05:56, when the lead reaches 204°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 22 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Tritiya began at 05:56 and ended at 03:53 Tue, between the sunrises of 04:53 and 04:53 Tue. Monday reads Dwitiya and Tuesday reads Chaturthi: Tritiya is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:24, came after Dwitiya ended at 03:26: this day reads Tritiya.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:53, came before Dwitiya ended at 05:56: this day reads Dwitiya. Tritiya ends at 03:53 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Tritiya: it is kshaya.

The night of Sun 23 Jun ran from sunset 19:47 Sun to sunrise 04:53, 9 h 6 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:53 to 19:47, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 51 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:47 to 04:53 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 8 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 18:24, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 68.7° + 272.1° = 340.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 333°20′–346°40′ is the 26th, Indra. It ends at 14:21, then Vaidhriti.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dwitiya is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 18:52 Sun, when the lead reached 198°; Garaja runs until 05:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:53 to 04:53 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 15 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 Jul, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 6 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha here, and Jyeshtha in the amanta count.

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 73.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.