Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Thu 10 Mar 1983

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:14 on Wed 9 Mar and 06:14 on Thu 10 Mar. Ekadashi (04:21 Wed 9 Mar to 07:03 Thu 10 Mar) and Dwadashi (07:03 Thu 10 Mar to 09:34 Fri 11 Mar) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Thu 10 Mar. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: over two sunrises, they too fast on the second.

Parama Ekadashi: every date in Ipameri

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, 06:14 here. Dashami ended at 04:21 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 07:03, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 04:21 Wed, before sunrise at 06:14 Wed, and ends at 07:03, after the next sunrise at 06:14. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 9 Mar ran from sunset 18:32 Wed to sunrise 06:14, 11 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:14 to 18:31, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:31 to 06:14 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 276°40′. It leaves at 11:50, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 325.6° + 277.2° = 602.8°, one full turn and 242.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 01:49 Fri, then Shiva.

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 17:43 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 07:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:14 to 06:14 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 12 Feb 21:31 Sat to 14 Mar 14:43 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 15:44 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 14 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) here, and Phalguna (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 07:17 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 344.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.