Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Mon 11 Dec 2028

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 288°–300° is the 25th, Krishna Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:26 here. Navami ended at 22:22 Sun, before it. Dashami ends at 20:03, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Sun 10 Dec ran from sunset 16:55 Sun to sunrise 07:26, 14 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:26 to 16:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:56 to 07:27 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 16:04, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 235.2° + 168.2° = 403.4°, one full turn and 43.4°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 23:02, then Shobhana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija runs until 09:13, when the lead reaches 294°; Vishti until 20:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:26 to 07:27 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 16 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 16 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2028, 12:31 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 253.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2085; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1950.