Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 10 Mar 1983

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 10 Mar only, at 07:21: Thu 10 Mar. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 11:21 Wed, before it (05:45–07:21).

Parama 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, 07:21 here. Dashami ended at 11:21 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 14:03, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 27 Feb, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 9 Mar ran from sunset 18:59 Wed to sunrise 07:21, 12 h 22 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:21 to 19:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 27 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:00 to 07:19 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 32 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 273°20′. It leaves at 18:50, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 325.4° + 274.3° = 599.7°, one full turn and 239.7°. 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 07:53, then Parigha.

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 00:43, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 14:03.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:21 to 07:19 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 13 Feb 04:31 Sun to 14 Mar 21:43 Mon the Sun stayed in Kumbha, entering Meena at 14 Mar 22:44 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Phalguna, before Phalguna 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 14 Mar, with the Sun in Kumbha, begins Phalguna (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Phalguna (Adhik) here, and Phalguna (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 25 Mar 1982, 14:17 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 344.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2039; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1904.