Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Thu 27 Mar 2025

Shiva’s Pradosh puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 04:13 on Thu 27 Mar to 01:33 on Fri 28 Mar, so only Thursday’s pradosha (18:36–20:55) falls within it. No text giving Pradosh Vrat’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.

Pradosh Vrat: every date in Baoding

Shiva’s worship centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Chaturdashi runs from 01:33 on Fri 28 Mar to 22:25 on Fri 28 Mar, between the two nights’ nishitha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Thu 27 Mar. No text giving Masik Shivratri’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Masik Shivratri: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 324°–336° is the 28th, Krishna Trayodashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:10 here. Dwadashi ended at 04:13, before it. Trayodashi ends at 01:33 Fri, when the lead reaches 336°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 14 Mar, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 26 Mar ran from sunset 18:35 Wed to sunrise 06:10, 11 h 35 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:10 to 18:36, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:36 to 06:09 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 306°40′. It leaves at 03:03 Fri, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 342.3° + 307.4° = 649.7°, one full turn and 289.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 280°00′–293°20′ is the 22nd, Sadhya. It ends at 11:54, then Shubha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Trayodashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 14:57, when the lead reaches 330°; Vanija until 01:33 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:10 to 06:09 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 29 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna 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 347.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.