Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Fri 16 Apr 2027

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 07:52 on Fri 16 Apr, after that sunrise (06:24), and ends at 05:58 on Sat 17 Apr, before the next (06:25 Sat): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Fri 16 Apr.

Kamada Ekadashi: every date in Libode

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 108°–120° is the 10th, Shukla Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:24 here. Navami ended at 09:51 Thu, before it. Dashami ends at 07:52, when the lead reaches 120°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 7 Apr, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 07:52 and ended at 05:58 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:24 and 06:25 Sat. Friday reads Dashami and Saturday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 15 Apr ran from sunset 17:43 Thu to sunrise 06:24, 12 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:24 to 17:42, 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 night here, 17:42 to 06:25 Sat, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 120°. It leaves at 03:38 Sat, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 1.7° + 120.9° = 122.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 23:28, then Vriddhi.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Taitila and the second Garaja. Taitila ended at 20:51 Thu, when the lead reached 114°; Garaja runs until 07:52.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:24 to 06:25 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 6 May, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 7 Apr, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra. This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 2027, 01:51 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2084; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1949.