Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 23 Apr 1998

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 23 Apr only, at 06:06: Thu 23 Apr. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 09:42 Wed, before it (04:30–06:06).

Varuthini 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, 06:06 here. Dashami ended at 09:42 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 07:08, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwadashi began at 07:08 and ended at 04:04 Fri, between the sunrises of 06:06 and 06:05 Fri. Thursday reads Ekadashi and Friday reads Trayodashi: Dwadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 22 Apr ran from sunset 18:48 Wed to sunrise 06:06, 11 h 18 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:06 to 18:48, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:48 to 06:05 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 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 03:26 Fri, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 8.8° + 320.3° = 329.1°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 12:38, then Indra.

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 20:29 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 07:08.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:06 to 06:05 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 26 Apr, with the Sun in Mesha, begins Vaishakha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Vaishakha here, and Chaitra in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 28 Mar 1998, 08:43 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 25.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2055; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1920.