Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 26 May 1961

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Fri 26 May only, at 05:51: Fri 26 May. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 14:19 Thu, before it (04:15–05:51).

Padmini Ekadashi: every date in Pāthardi

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, 05:51 here. Dashami ended at 14:19 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 14:57, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Thu 25 May ran from sunset 19:00 Thu to sunrise 05:51, 10 h 51 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:51 to 19:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:00 to 05:51 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 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′. Hasta spans 160°00′–173°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 166°40′. It leaves at 14:30, for Chitra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 41.2° + 168.7° = 209.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 11:48, then Vyatipata.

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 02:44, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 14:57.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:51 to 05:51 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 14 May 22:24 Sun to 13 Jun 10:46 Tue the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 14 Jun 20:59 Wed, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha itself.

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 14 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1961, 00:20 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 68.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2018; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1883.