Panchang in Thazhecode, Kerala Sat 12 Aug 2023

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It holds both sunrises, 06:15 on Fri 11 Aug and 06:15 on Sat 12 Aug. Ekadashi (05:06 Fri 11 Aug to 06:32 Sat 12 Aug) and Dwadashi (06:32 Sat 12 Aug to 08:20 Sun 13 Aug) are both longer than their day; when both grow, Smartas take the later day: Sat 12 Aug. Vaishnavas test arunodaya: on Fri 11 Aug Dashami lasts until 05:06, inside it (04:39–06:15); on Sat 12 Aug Ekadashi holds all of it.

Parama 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, 06:15 here. Dashami ended at 05:06 Fri, before it. Ekadashi ends at 06:32, when the lead reaches 312°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 2 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 05:06 Fri, before sunrise at 06:15 Fri, and ends at 06:32, after the next sunrise at 06:15. Both days read Ekadashi: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Fri 11 Aug ran from sunset 18:47 Fri to sunrise 06:15, 11 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:15 to 18:46, 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, 18:46 to 06:15 Sun, 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′. Ardra spans 66°40′–80°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 66°40′. It leaves at 08:26 Sun, for Punarvasu.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 114.9° + 66.8° = 181.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 15:22, then Vajra.

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 17:46 Fri, when the lead reached 306°; Balava runs until 06:32.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:15 to 06:15 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Jul 00:01 Tue to 16 Aug 15:08 Wed the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 13:32 Thu, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, begins Shravana (Adhik). Until then this Krishna paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) here, and Shravana (Adhik) in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 2023, 22:53 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 138.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2080; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1945.