Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Thu 18 Dec 2014

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise: it holds sunrise on Thu 18 Dec only, at 06:38: Thu 18 Dec. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: Dashami ended at 11:09 Wed, before it (05:02–06:38).

Saphala Ekadashi: every date in Thazhecode

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, 06:38 here. Dashami ended at 11:09 Wed, before it. Ekadashi ends at 11:52, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Dec, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Wed 17 Dec ran from sunset 18:05 Wed to sunrise 06:38, 12 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:38 to 18:06, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:06 to 06:38 Fri, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Swati spans 186°40′–200°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 190°. It leaves at 22:40, for Vishakha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 241.9° + 191.4° = 433.3°, one full turn and 73.3°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 18:10, then Sukarma.

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 23:37 Wed, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 11:52.

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

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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 22 Dec, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 22 Dec, with the Sun in Dhanu, begins Pausha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Pausha here, and Margashirsha in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 31 Mar 2014, 00:14 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 256° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2071; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1936.