Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Tue 7 Nov 2000

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, 06:32 here. Dashami ended at 05:52, before it. Ekadashi ends at 06:40 Wed, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 27 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:52, before sunrise at 06:32, and ends at 06:40 Wed, after the next sunrise at 06:33 Wed. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Mon 6 Nov ran from sunset 17:53 Mon to sunrise 06:32, 12 h 39 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:32 to 17:53, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:53 to 06:33 Wed, 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 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 05:17 Wed, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 201.1° + 321.4° = 522.5°, one full turn and 162.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 01:46 Wed, then Harshana.

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 runs until 18:22, when the lead reaches 126°; Vishti until 06:40 Wed.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:32 to 06:33 Wed, so the hours after midnight still belong to Mangalawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Nov, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 Oct, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 4 Apr 2000, 23:42 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 209.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2057; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1922.