Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 12 May 1999

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Wed 12 May only, at 06:47: Wed 12 May. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 08:50 Tue, before it (05:11–06:47).

Apara 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, 06:47 here. Dashami ended at 08:50 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 06:47, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 Apr, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwadashi began at 06:47 and ended at 04:01 Thu, between the sunrises of 06:47 and 06:46 Thu. Wednesday reads Ekadashi and Thursday reads Trayodashi: Dwadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 11 May ran from sunset 21:05 Tue to sunrise 06:47, 9 h 42 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:47 to 21:06, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:06 to 06:46 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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 Bhadrapada spans 333°20′–346°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 336°40′. It leaves at 19:24, for Revati.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 27.1° + 339.1° = 366.2°, one full turn and 6.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 17:59, then Priti.

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 19:54 Tue, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 06:47.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:47 to 06:46 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 15 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 15 May, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 15 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha here, and Vaishakha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1999, 22:47 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 54.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.