Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 28 Aug 1974

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Wed 28 Aug only, at 06:22: Wed 28 Aug. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 11:35 Tue, before it (04:46–06:22).

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, 06:22 here. Dashami ended at 11:35 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 13:56, 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 Tue 27 Aug ran from sunset 19:40 Tue to sunrise 06:22, 10 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 42 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:22 to 19:39, 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, 19:39 to 06:23 Thu, 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 2 at 256°40′. It leaves at 20:56, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 130.9° + 259.5° = 390.4°, one full turn and 30.4°. 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 00:23 Thu, 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 00:44, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 13:56.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:22 to 06:23 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 23:01 Sat to 16 Sep 06:45 Mon the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 16 Sep 22:33 Mon, 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 1974, 01:23 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 151.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2031; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1896.