Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Wed 22 Aug 2018

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:15 on Tue 21 Aug and 06:15 on Wed 22 Aug. Ekadashi (05:16 Tue 21 Aug to 07:40 Wed 22 Aug) and Dwadashi (07:40 Wed 22 Aug to 10:15 Thu 23 Aug) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Wed 22 Aug. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Tue 21 Aug Dashami lasts until 05:16, inside it (04:39–06:15); on Wed 22 Aug Ekadashi holds all of it.

Shravana Putrada Ekadashi: every date in Thazhecode

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, 06:15 here. Dashami ended at 05:16 Tue, before it. Ekadashi ends at 07:40, when the lead reaches 132°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 11 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:16 Tue, before sunrise at 06:15 Tue, and ends at 07:40, after the next sunrise at 06:15. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Tue 21 Aug ran from sunset 18:42 Tue to sunrise 06:15, 11 h 33 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:15 to 18:41, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:41 to 06:15 Thu, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Purva Ashadha spans 253°20′–266°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 253°20′. It leaves at 03:39 Thu, for Uttara Ashadha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 124.8° + 256.1° = 380.9°, one full turn and 20.9°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 17:01, then Ayushmana.

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 18:26 Tue, when the lead reached 126°; Vishti runs until 07:40.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:15 to 06:15 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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 17 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 9 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 11 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 2018, 18:41 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 152° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2075; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1940.