Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Wed 21 Dec 2011

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Wed 21 Dec only, at 06:57: Wed 21 Dec. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 12:47 Tue, before it (05:21–06:57).

Saphala 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, 06:57 here. Dashami ended at 12:47 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 10:09, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 10 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 20 Dec ran from sunset 17:55 Tue to sunrise 06:57, 13 h 2 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:57 to 17:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:56 to 06:58 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 193°20′. It leaves at 15:14, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 244.8° + 195° = 439.8°, one full turn and 79.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 07:19, then Sukarma.

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 23:29 Tue, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 10:09.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:57 to 06:58 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 24 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 24 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 3 Apr 2011, 20:02 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 255.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2068; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1933.