Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 23 Dec 1932

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 09:15 on Fri 23 Dec, after that sunrise (06:59), and ends at 06:26 on Sat 24 Dec, before the next (06:59 Sat): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Fri 23 Dec.

Saphala Ekadashi: every date in Pāthardi

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, 06:59 here. Navami ended at 11:32 Thu, before it. Dashami ends at 09:15, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 13 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 09:15 and ended at 06:26 Sat, between the sunrises of 06:59 and 06:59 Sat. Friday reads Dashami and Saturday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 22 Dec ran from sunset 17:57 Thu to sunrise 06:59, 13 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:59 to 17:57, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:57 to 06:59 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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 04:39 Sat, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 248.1° + 186.8° = 434.9°, one full turn and 74.9°. 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 14:48, 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 22:27 Thu, when the lead reached 294°; Vishti runs until 09:15.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:59 to 06:59 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 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 27 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: 6 Apr 1932, 06:50 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 255° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1989; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1854.