Panchang in Myjava, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Mon 25 Dec 1978

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 08:13 on Mon 25 Dec, after that sunrise (07:41), and ends at 07:18 on Tue 26 Dec, before the next (07:42 Tue): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Mon 25 Dec.

Saphala Ekadashi: every date in Myjava

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 288°–300° is the 25th, Krishna Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:41 here. Navami ended at 08:15 Sun, before it. Dashami ends at 08:13, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 14 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 08:13 and ended at 07:18 Tue, between the sunrises of 07:41 and 07:42 Tue. Monday reads Dashami and Tuesday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sun 24 Dec ran from sunset 15:56 Sun to sunrise 07:41, 15 h 45 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 1 h 3 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:41 to 15:57, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 2 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 15:57 to 07:42 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 58 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 186°40′. It leaves at 02:49 Tue, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 249.6° + 189.3° = 438.9°, one full turn and 78.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 09:39, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 20:21 Sun, when the lead reached 294°; Vishti runs until 08:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:41 to 07:42 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1978, 16:15 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 255.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.