Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Wed 10 Nov 2027

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 05:01 on Tue 9 Nov and 05:00 on Wed 10 Nov. Ekadashi (04:05 Tue 9 Nov to 05:41 Wed 10 Nov) and Dwadashi (05:41 Wed 10 Nov to 06:37 Thu 11 Nov) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Wed 10 Nov. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Tue 9 Nov Dashami lasts until 04:05, inside it (03:25–05:01); on Wed 10 Nov Ekadashi holds all of it.

Dev Uthani Ekadashi: every date in Libode

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 120°–132° is the 11th, Shukla Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:00 here. Dashami ended at 04:05 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 05:41, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 29 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 04:05 Tue, before sunrise at 05:01 Tue, and ends at 05:41, after the next sunrise at 05:00. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 9 Nov ran from sunset 18:34 Tue to sunrise 05:00, 10 h 26 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 41 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:00 to 18:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 41 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:35 to 04:59 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 18 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 Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 333°20′. It leaves at 03:31 Thu, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 203.2° + 334.9° = 538.1°, one full turn and 178.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 20:10, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 16:58 Tue, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 05:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:00 to 04:59 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 29 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika 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 210.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2084; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1949.