Panchang in Chahārbāgh, Alborz Province, Iran Thu 6 Sep 2018

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 6 Sep only, at 06:42: Thu 6 Sep. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 14:00 Wed, before it (05:06–06:42).

Aja Ekadashi: every date in Chahārbāgh

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, 06:42 here. Dashami ended at 14:00 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 11:15, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 26 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 5 Sep ran from sunset 19:28 Wed to sunrise 06:42, 11 h 14 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:42 to 19:27, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:27 to 06:43 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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′. Punarvasu spans 80°00′–93°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 86°40′. It leaves at 14:13, for Pushya.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 139.3° + 88.7° = 228°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 00:59 Fri, then Parigha.

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 00:40, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 11:15.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:42 to 06:43 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 9 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 16:41 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 166.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.