Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sat 11 Jul 2015

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Sat 11 Jul only, at 05:49: Sat 11 Jul.

Parama Ekadashi: every date in Diffa

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, 05:49 here. Dashami ended at 05:08, before it. Ekadashi ends at 03:53 Sun, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 05:31, came before Dashami ended at 09:38: this day reads Dashami.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 05:49, came after Dashami ended at 05:08: this day reads Ekadashi.

The night of Fri 10 Jul ran from sunset 18:40 Fri to sunrise 05:49, 11 h 9 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:49 to 18:40, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 36 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:40 to 05:49 Sun, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 23 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′. Bharani spans 13°20′–26°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 23°20′. It leaves at 08:56, for Krittika.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 84.5° + 24.9° = 109.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 106°40′–120°00′ is the 9th, Shula. It ends at 23:14, then Ganda.

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 16:28, when the lead reaches 306°; Balava until 03:53 Sun.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:49 to 05:49 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 16 Jun 15:05 Tue to 16 Jul 02:24 Thu the Sun stayed in Mithuna, entering Karka at 16 Jul 23:32 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Ashadha, before Ashadha itself.

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 16 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, begins Ashadha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashadha (Adhik) here, and Ashadha (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 10:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 109.1° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.