Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 3 Mar 2023

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:48 on Thu 2 Mar and 06:47 on Fri 3 Mar. Ekadashi (06:40 Thu 2 Mar to 09:11 Fri 3 Mar) and Dwadashi (09:11 Fri 3 Mar to 11:43 Sat 4 Mar) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Fri 3 Mar. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Thu 2 Mar Dashami lasts until 06:40, inside it (05:12–06:48); on Fri 3 Mar Ekadashi holds all of it.

Amalaki 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, 06:47 here. Dashami ended at 06:40 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 09:11, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 20 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 06:40 Thu, before sunrise at 06:48 Thu, and ends at 09:11, after the next sunrise at 06:47. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 2 Mar ran from sunset 18:34 Thu to sunrise 06:47, 12 h 13 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:47 to 18:35, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:35 to 06:46 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Punarvasu spans 80°00′–93°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 86°40′. It leaves at 15:43, for Pushya.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 318° + 88.9° = 406.9°, one full turn and 46.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 40°00′–53°20′ is the 4th, Saubhagya. It ends at 18:44, then Shobhana.

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 19:55 Thu, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 09:11.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:47 to 06:46 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 21 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 20 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 1 Apr 2022, 11:54 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 330.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2079; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1944.