Panchang in Split, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia Fri 11 Apr 2014

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:20 on Thu 10 Apr and 06:19 on Fri 11 Apr. Ekadashi (04:27 Thu 10 Apr to 06:30 Fri 11 Apr) and Dwadashi (06:30 Fri 11 Apr to 08:06 Sat 12 Apr) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Fri 11 Apr. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: over two sunrises, they too fast on the second.

Kamada Ekadashi: every date in Split

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, 06:19 here. Dashami ended at 04:27 Thu, before it. Ekadashi ends at 06:30, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 30 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 04:27 Thu, before sunrise at 06:20 Thu, and ends at 06:30, after the next sunrise at 06:19. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 10 Apr ran from sunset 19:31 Thu to sunrise 06:19, 10 h 48 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:19 to 19:32, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:32 to 06:17 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 126°40′. It leaves at 14:44, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 357.1° + 129.1° = 486.2°, one full turn and 126.2°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 19:18, then Vriddhi.

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 17:31 Thu, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 06:30.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:19 to 06:17 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: Meena gives Chaitra. The Sun enters Mesha on 14 Apr, inside the month. The next new moon, 29 Apr, finds it in Mesha and begins Vaishakha.

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 30 Mar, with the Sun in Meena, began Chaitra. This Shukla paksha reads Chaitra in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 30 Mar 2014, 20:44 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 11.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2071; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1936.