Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 29 Aug 1955

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Mon 29 Aug only, at 05:23: Mon 29 Aug. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 06:07 Sun, before it (03:47–05:23).

Padmini Ekadashi: every date in Sevan

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, 05:23 here. Dashami ended at 06:07 Sun, before it. Ekadashi ends at 08:14, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sun 28 Aug ran from sunset 18:39 Sun to sunrise 05:23, 10 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:23 to 18:38, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:38 to 05:24 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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 Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 260°. It leaves at 13:47, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 131.7° + 262.4° = 394.1°, one full turn and 34.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 26°40′–40°00′ is the 3rd, Ayushmana. It ends at 16:05, then Saubhagya.

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 19:14 Sun, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 08:14.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:23 to 05:24 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 22:58 Wed to 16 Sep 09:19 Fri the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 17 Sep 00:46 Sat, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada itself.

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 17 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 1955, 06:42 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 152.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2012; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1877.