Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Fri 16 Jan 2015

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 07:51 on Fri 16 Jan, after that sunrise (07:34), and ends at 07:09 on Sat 17 Jan, before the next (07:34 Sat): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Fri 16 Jan.

Shattila Ekadashi: every date in Baoding

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, 07:34 here. Navami ended at 07:39 Thu, before it. Dashami ends at 07:51, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 5 Jan, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 07:51 and ended at 07:09 Sat, between the sunrises of 07:34 and 07:34 Sat. Friday reads Dashami and Saturday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:14, came after Dashami ended at 05:21: this day reads Ekadashi.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 07:34, came before Dashami ended at 07:51: this day reads Dashami. Ekadashi ends at 07:09 Sat, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ekadashi: it is kshaya.

The night of Thu 15 Jan ran from sunset 17:19 Thu to sunrise 07:34, 14 h 15 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:34 to 17:20, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 13 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:20 to 07:34 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 46 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 210°. It leaves at 11:18, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 271.4° + 211.3° = 482.7°, one full turn and 122.7°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 01:21 Sat, then Vriddhi.

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 ended at 19:52 Thu, when the lead reached 294°; Vishti runs until 07:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:34 to 07:34 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Jan, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 20 Jan, with the Sun in Makara, begins Magha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Magha here, and Pausha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 2014, 02:44 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 285.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2071; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1936.