Panchang in Same, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Thu 16 Jun 2016

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:33 on Wed 15 Jun and 06:33 on Thu 16 Jun. Ekadashi (04:56 Wed 15 Jun to 07:24 Thu 16 Jun) and Dwadashi (07:24 Thu 16 Jun to 09:39 Fri 17 Jun) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Thu 16 Jun. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: over two sunrises, they too fast on the second.

Nirjala Ekadashi: every date in Same

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, 06:33 here. Dashami ended at 04:56 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 07:24, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 5 Jun, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 04:56 Wed, before sunrise at 06:33 Wed, and ends at 07:24, after the next sunrise at 06:33. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 15 Jun ran from sunset 18:26 Wed to sunrise 06:33, 12 h 7 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:33 to 18:26, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:26 to 06:33 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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 2 at 190°. It leaves at 20:46, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 61.3° + 193° = 254.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 05:37 Fri, then Siddha.

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 18:11 Wed, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 07:24.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:33 to 06:33 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: Vrishabha gives Jyeshtha. The Sun enters Mithuna on 14 Jun, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 Jul, finds it in Mithuna and begins Ashadha.

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 5 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha. This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 2016, 14:23 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 67.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2073; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1938.