Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Thu 4 Jul 2013

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 04:57 on Wed 3 Jul and 04:57 on Thu 4 Jul. Ekadashi (03:26 Wed 3 Jul to 05:27 Thu 4 Jul) and Dwadashi (05:27 Thu 4 Jul to 07:48 Fri 5 Jul) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Thu 4 Jul. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Wed 3 Jul Dashami lasts until 03:26, inside it (03:21–04:57); on Thu 4 Jul Ekadashi holds all of it.

Yogini Ekadashi: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 300°–312° is the 26th, Krishna Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:57 here. Dashami ended at 03:26 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 05:27, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 23 Jun, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 03:26 Wed, before sunrise at 04:57 Wed, and ends at 05:27, after the next sunrise at 04:57. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:28, came after Ekadashi ended at 02:57: this day reads Dwadashi.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 04:57, came before Ekadashi ended at 05:27: this day reads Ekadashi.

The night of Wed 3 Jul ran from sunset 19:47 Wed to sunrise 04:57, 9 h 10 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:57 to 19:46, 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, 19:46 to 04:58 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 26°40′. It leaves at 01:32 Fri, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 78° + 29.8° = 107.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 03:42 Fri, then Ganda.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 16:23 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 05:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:57 to 04:58 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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 15 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 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 8 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: 10 Apr 2013, 17:35 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 81.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2070; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1935.