Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 23 Feb 1979

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Fri 23 Feb only, at 07:43: Fri 23 Feb. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 13:17 Thu, before it (06:07–07:43).

Vijaya 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, 07:43 here. Dashami ended at 13:17 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 10:36, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 12 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwadashi began at 10:36 and ended at 07:28 Sat, between the sunrises of 07:43 and 07:42 Sat. Friday reads Ekadashi and Saturday reads Trayodashi: Dwadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 22 Feb ran from sunset 18:42 Thu to sunrise 07:43, 13 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:43 to 18:43, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:43 to 07:42 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 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 17:26, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 310.4° + 260.7° = 571.1°, one full turn and 211.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 200°00′–213°20′ is the 16th, Siddhi. It ends at 11:10, then Vyatipata.

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 00:01, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 10:36.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:43 to 07:42 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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 26 Feb, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 26 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna here, and Magha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1978, 19:15 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 316.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2035; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1900.