Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 29 Oct 1963

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Tue 29 Oct only, at 06:28: Tue 29 Oct. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 10:12 Mon, before it (04:52–06:28).

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, 06:28 here. Dashami ended at 10:12 Mon, before it. Ekadashi ends at 08:26, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwadashi began at 08:26 and ended at 05:56 Wed, between the sunrises of 06:28 and 06:28 Wed. Tuesday reads Ekadashi and Wednesday reads Trayodashi: Dwadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Mon 28 Oct ran from sunset 17:58 Mon to sunrise 06:28, 12 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:28 to 17:57, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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 06:28 Wed, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 320°. It leaves at 00:41 Wed, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 191.5° + 322.4° = 513.9°, one full turn and 153.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 15:56, then Vyaghata.

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 21:25 Mon, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 08:26.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:28 to 06:28 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Oct 18:12 Thu to 16 Nov 12:20 Sat the Sun stayed in Tula, entering Vrishchika at 16 Nov 16:09 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Kartika, before Kartika 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 17 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Kartika (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1963, 17:39 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 210.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2020; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1885.