Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 10 Jun 1999

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 10 Jun only, at 06:29: Thu 10 Jun. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 17:15 Wed, before it (04:53–06:29).

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, 06:29 here. Dashami ended at 17:15 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 14:29, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 30 May, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 9 Jun ran from sunset 21:29 Wed to sunrise 06:29, 9 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 36 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:29 to 21:29, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 52 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:29 to 06:29 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 7 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 00:23 Fri, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 54.9° + 2.4° = 57.3°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 53°20′–66°40′ is the 5th, Shobhana. It ends at 20:54, then Atiganda.

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 03:56, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 14:29.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:29 to 06:29 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 15 May 17:05 Sat to 14 Jun 00:02 Mon the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 14:08 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha 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 Jun, with the Sun in Vrishabha, begins Jyeshtha (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) here, and Jyeshtha (Adhik) 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 82° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2056; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1921.