Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Fri 10 Sep 2004

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:13 on Thu 9 Sep and 06:12 on Fri 10 Sep. Ekadashi (06:12 Thu 9 Sep to 08:14 Fri 10 Sep) and Dwadashi (08:14 Fri 10 Sep to 09:50 Sat 11 Sep) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Fri 10 Sep. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Thu 9 Sep Dashami lasts until 06:12, inside it (04:37–06:13); on Fri 10 Sep Ekadashi holds all of it.

Aja 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, 06:12 here. Dashami ended at 06:12 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 08:14, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 29 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 06:12 Thu, before sunrise at 06:13 Thu, and ends at 08:14, after the next sunrise at 06:12. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 9 Sep ran from sunset 18:07 Thu to sunrise 06:12, 12 h 5 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:12 to 18:07, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:07 to 06:11 Sat, 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 93°20′. It leaves at 04:55 Sat, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 144.1° + 95.1° = 239.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 07:40, 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 19:16 Thu, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 08:14.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:12 to 06:11 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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, 14 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 14 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: 20 Mar 2004, 19:41 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 167.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2061; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1926.