Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 29 Jul 2012

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Sun 29 Jul only, at 05:54: Sun 29 Jul. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 16:15 Sat, before it (04:18–05:54).

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi: every date in Diffa

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 120°–132° is the 11th, Shukla Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:54 here. Dashami ended at 16:15 Sat, before it. Ekadashi ends at 13:46, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 19 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 28 Jul ran from sunset 18:38 Sat to sunrise 05:54, 11 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:54 to 18:37, 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, 18:37 to 05:54 Mon, 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′. Jyeshtha spans 226°40′–240°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 230°. It leaves at 22:31, for Mula.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 102.4° + 230° = 332.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 07:12, then Indra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 03:01, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 13:46.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:54 to 05:54 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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, 17 Aug, 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 19 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 15:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 124.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.