Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Mon 15 May 2023

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 05:16 on Mon 15 May, after that sunrise (05:06), and ends at 03:33 on Tue 16 May, before the next (05:05 Tue): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Mon 15 May.

Apara 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, 05:06 here. Navami ended at 07:13 Sun, before it. Dashami ends at 05:16, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:16 and ended at 03:33 Tue, between the sunrises of 05:06 and 05:05 Tue. Monday reads Dashami and Tuesday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:30, came after Dashami ended at 02:46: this day reads Ekadashi.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 05:06, came before Dashami ended at 05:16: this day reads Dashami. Ekadashi ends at 03:33 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Ekadashi: it is kshaya.

The night of Sun 14 May ran from sunset 19:22 Sun to sunrise 05:06, 9 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:06 to 19:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:23 to 05:05 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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 Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 326°40′. It leaves at 11:38, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 29.6° + 329.5° = 359.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 06:26, then Vishkambha.

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 18:13 Sun, when the lead reached 294°; Vishti runs until 05:16.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:06 to 05:05 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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 19 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 19 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2023, 01:23 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 53° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.