Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 13 Dec 1956

Gita Jayanti follows the tithi at sunrise. Ekadashi runs from 05:49 on Thu 13 Dec to 05:42 on Fri 14 Dec, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 13 Dec, at 07:14. No text giving Gita Jayanti’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Gita Jayanti: every date in Sevan

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 13 Dec only, at 07:14: Thu 13 Dec.

Mokshada 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, 07:14 here. Dashami ended at 05:49, before it. Ekadashi ends at 05:42 Fri, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:04, came before Dashami ended at 08:19: this day reads Dashami.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 07:14, came after Dashami ended at 05:49: this day reads Ekadashi.

The night of Wed 12 Dec ran from sunset 16:33 Wed to sunrise 07:14, 14 h 41 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:14 to 16:33, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 9 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 16:33 to 07:15 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 50 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′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 356°40′. It leaves at 09:51, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 237.9° + 358.6° = 596.5°, one full turn and 236.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 13:17, then Parigha.

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 17:51, when the lead reaches 126°; Vishti until 05:42 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:14 to 07:15 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 15 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Jan, 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 2 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, began Margashirsha. This Shukla paksha reads Margashirsha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 11 Apr 1956, 05:38 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 240° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2013; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1878.