Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Sun 24 May 2026

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, 04:58 here. Saptami ended at 07:34 Sat, before it. Ashtami ends at 06:57, when the lead reaches 96°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:26, came after Ashtami ended at 04:27: this day reads Navami.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:58, came before Ashtami ended at 06:57: this day reads Ashtami.

The night of Sat 23 May ran from sunset 19:30 Sat to sunrise 04:58, 9 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:58 to 19:31, 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, 19:31 to 04:58 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 133°20′. It leaves at 05:21 Mon, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 38.5° + 133.5° = 172°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 07:12, then Harshana.

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 ended at 19:10 Sat, when the lead reached 90°; Bava runs until 06:57.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:58 to 04:58 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 May 04:01 Sun to 15 Jun 10:54 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 15:22 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha itself.

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 17 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2026, 09:23 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 64.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2083; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1948.