Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 25 Jul 2003

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:49 on Thu 24 Jul and 06:50 on Fri 25 Jul. Ekadashi (06:14 Thu 24 Jul to 08:27 Fri 25 Jul) and Dwadashi (08:27 Fri 25 Jul to 10:11 Sat 26 Jul) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Fri 25 Jul. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Thu 24 Jul Dashami lasts until 06:14, inside it (05:13–06:49); on Fri 25 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, 06:50 here. Dashami ended at 06:14 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 08:27, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 14 Jul, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 06:14 Thu, before sunrise at 06:49 Thu, and ends at 08:27, after the next sunrise at 06:50. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 24 Jul ran from sunset 21:23 Thu to sunrise 06:50, 9 h 27 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:50 to 21:22, 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, 21:22 to 06:50 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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 15:16, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 97.8° + 49.1° = 146.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 146°40′–160°00′ is the 12th, Dhruva. It ends at 06:49 Sat, then Vyaghata.

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 19:23 Thu, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 08:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:50 to 06:50 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 17 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 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 29 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: 2 Apr 2003, 00:18 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 110° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2060; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1925.