Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 23 Jul 1976

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 05:47 on Thu 22 Jul and 05:48 on Fri 23 Jul. Ekadashi (04:19 Thu 22 Jul to 05:55 Fri 23 Jul) and Dwadashi (05:55 Fri 23 Jul to 06:51 Sat 24 Jul) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Fri 23 Jul. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Thu 22 Jul Dashami lasts until 04:19, inside it (04:11–05:47); on Fri 23 Jul Ekadashi holds all of it.

Kamika Ekadashi: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 300°–312° is the 26th, Krishna Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 05:48 here. Dashami ended at 04:19 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 05:55, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 11 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 04:19 Thu, before sunrise at 05:47 Thu, and ends at 05:55, after the next sunrise at 05:48. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 22 Jul ran from sunset 20:24 Thu to sunrise 05:48, 9 h 24 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:48 to 20:23, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 20:23 to 05:49 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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′. Rohini spans 40°00′–53°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 46°40′. It leaves at 14:40, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 96.8° + 48.8° = 145.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 07:48, then Dhruva.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Bava and the second Balava. Bava ended at 17:12 Thu, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 05:55.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:48 to 05:49 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 27 Jul, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 27 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana here, and Ashadha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 1976, 21:07 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 110.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2033; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1898.