Panchang in Davinópolis, Maranhão, Brazil Thu 1 Sep 1994

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 1 Sep only, at 06:09: Thu 1 Sep. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 20:02 Wed, before it (04:33–06:09).

Aja Ekadashi: every date in Davinópolis

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, 06:09 here. Dashami ended at 20:02 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 20:34, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 21 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 31 Aug ran from sunset 18:09 Wed to sunrise 06:09, 12 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:09 to 18:09, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:09 to 06:09 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 76°40′. It leaves at 06:29, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 134.9° + 79.8° = 214.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 213°20′–226°40′ is the 17th, Vyatipata. It ends at 02:53 Fri, then Variyana.

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 runs until 08:24, when the lead reaches 306°; Balava until 20:34.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:09 to 06:09 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 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 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 5 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: 10 Apr 1994, 21:17 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 137.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2051; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1916.