Panchang in Ipameri, Goiás, Brazil Thu 11 Mar 2010

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:14 on Wed 10 Mar and 06:14 on Thu 11 Mar. Ekadashi (05:41 Wed 10 Mar to 08:21 Thu 11 Mar) and Dwadashi (08:21 Thu 11 Mar to 11:05 Fri 12 Mar) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Thu 11 Mar. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Wed 10 Mar Dashami lasts until 05:41, inside it (04:38–06:14); on Thu 11 Mar Ekadashi holds all of it.

Papamochani 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 05:41 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 08:21, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 28 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:41 Wed, before sunrise at 06:14 Wed, and ends at 08:21, after the next sunrise at 06:14. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 10 Mar ran from sunset 18:31 Wed to sunrise 06:14, 11 h 43 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:14 to 18:30, 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, 18:30 to 06:14 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 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 10:52, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 326.7° + 277.7° = 604.4°, one full turn and 244.4°. 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 23:00, 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 19:00 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 08:21.

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.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 15 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, begins Chaitra. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Chaitra here, and Phalguna in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2009, 13:05 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 344.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2066; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1931.