Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 12 Sep 2012

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Wed 12 Sep only, at 06:37: Wed 12 Sep. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 09:53 Tue, before it (05:01–06:37).

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, 06:37 here. Dashami ended at 09:53 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 10:34, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 31 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Tue 11 Sep ran from sunset 19:15 Tue to sunrise 06:37, 11 h 22 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:37 to 19:13, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 34 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:13 to 06:38 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 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′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 93°20′. It leaves at 02:52 Thu, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 145.7° + 95.8° = 241.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 240°00′–253°20′ is the 19th, Parigha. It ends at 03:07 Thu, then Shiva.

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 22:19 Tue, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 10:34.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:37 to 06:38 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 Aug 19:54 Fri to 16 Sep 06:10 Sun the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 16 Sep 16:24 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 16 Sep, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) here, and Bhadrapada (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 18:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 167.4° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.