Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 25 May 1995

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 05:51 on Wed 24 May and 05:51 on Thu 25 May. Ekadashi (05:14 Wed 24 May to 06:25 Thu 25 May) and Dwadashi (06:25 Thu 25 May to 08:06 Fri 26 May) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Thu 25 May. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Wed 24 May Dashami lasts until 05:14, inside it (04:15–05:51); on Thu 25 May Ekadashi holds all of it.

Apara Ekadashi: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 300°–312° is the 26th, Krishna Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:51 here. Dashami ended at 05:14 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 06:25, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:14 Wed, before sunrise at 05:51 Wed, and ends at 06:25, after the next sunrise at 05:51. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 24 May ran from sunset 19:00 Wed 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 Fri, 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 350°. It leaves at 22:58, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 39.6° + 351.3° = 390.9°, one full turn and 30.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 22:31, then Saubhagya.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 17:46 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 06:25.

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

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 1995, 07:38 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 53.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2052; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1917.