Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Sun 14 Jul 2024

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, 05:04 here. Saptami ended at 17:36 Sat, before it. Ashtami ends at 19:56, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 13 Jul ran from sunset 19:43 Sat to sunrise 05:04, 9 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:04 to 19:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:43 to 05:05 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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′. Chitra spans 173°20′–186°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 176°40′. It leaves at 00:36 Mon, for Swati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 87.7° + 177° = 264.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 08:45, then Siddha.

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 runs until 06:48, when the lead reaches 90°; Bava until 19:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:04 to 05:05 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha 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 92.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.