Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 20 Jan 2016

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Wed 20 Jan only, at 08:19: Wed 20 Jan. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 10:49 Tue, before it (06:43–08:19).

Pausha Putrada Ekadashi: every date in Sevan

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 120°–132° is the 11th, Shukla Ekadashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 08:19 here. Dashami ended at 10:49 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 09:13, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 10 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Dwadashi began at 09:13 and ended at 07:50 Thu, between the sunrises of 08:19 and 08:18 Thu. Wednesday reads Ekadashi and Thursday reads Trayodashi: Dwadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Tue 19 Jan ran from sunset 18:01 Tue to sunrise 08:19, 14 h 18 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:19 to 18:02, 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 night here, 18:02 to 08:18 Thu, 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 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 19:23, for Mrigashira.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 275.4° + 47° = 322.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 320°00′–333°20′ is the 25th, Brahma. It ends at 02:02 Thu, then Indra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Ekadashi is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 22:00 Tue, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 09:13.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:19 to 08:18 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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 10 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 20 Mar 2015, 13:36 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 300° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2072; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1937.