Pañcāṅga for 25 June 2026 — Śukla Ekādaśī, Svātī

What this day is marked as

Ekādaśī (11th tithi, Śukla pakṣa) — the traditional fast day

Only days that are astronomically computable AND classically named are marked here: Pūrṇimā and Amāvāsyā from the instant of the syzygy itself, Ekādaśī and Pradoṣa from the tithi current at sunrise, and Saṅkrānti from the Sun’s crossing into a new rāśi. No festival calendar is applied. Which festival falls on which tithi is a regional and sampradāya decision — often a particular temple’s reckoning — and it cannot be derived from the astronomy, so this column does not guess at it.

The five limbs at sunrise

Tithi: Śukla Ekādaśī
Vāra: Guruvāra
Nakṣatra: Svātī
Yoga: Śiva
Karaṇa: Vaṇija

The full pañcāṅga convention this day was read under

The five limbs (tithi, vāra, nakṣatra, yoga, karaṇa) are computed AT SUNRISE of each day — the classical convention, since a Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise and a day is named by the limb current at its sunrise (not at midnight or local noon). Positions are sidereal (Lāhirī / Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa) from the ephemeris; sunrise and sunset are computed by rise-transit for these exact coordinates, so every timing below shifts correctly with longitude, latitude and season. Rāhu-kāla, Yamaghaṇṭa and Gulika are the classical daylight-eighths tables applied to that day's real daylight span; Abhijit is the 8th of 15 equal daylight muhūrtas. Because a tithi is a 12° elongation and not a day, a tithi may be skipped (kṣaya) or repeated (adhika) from one sunrise to the next — that is expected, not an error. Two consequences worth knowing. When a tithi is SKIPPED it is current at no sunrise at all, so an Ekādaśī or a Pradoṣa can be missing from a month here even though the tithi did occur; which adjoining day the observance then moves to is decided by regional rule (Smārta and Vaiṣṇava reckonings differ), which is why this almanac does not move it for you. When a tithi is REPEATED it is current at two successive sunrises, so both days are marked and each is labelled as the first or second of the pair, rather than one being chosen silently. Pūrṇimā and Amāvāsyā are the exception to all of this: they are NOT taken from the sunrise tithi but from the instant of the syzygy itself (the Moon exactly opposite, or exactly with, the Sun), which is printed alongside them. There is exactly one full moon and one new moon per lunation, so a sunrise rule would print them twice in a repeated month and lose them entirely in a skipped one. Note that the observance day a printed pañcāṅga names may still be the previous day where the tithi prevails through that night — the instant given here is the astronomy, from which any convention can be applied. Marked days are only those that are astronomically computable and classically named: Pūrṇimā, Amāvāsyā, Ekādaśī, Pradoṣa (trayodaśī) and Saṅkrānti (the Sun changing rāśi, shown on the local civil day containing the ingress; regional punya-kāla conventions for observing it differ). No festival calendar is applied: which festival falls on which tithi is a regional and sampradāya-specific decision that cannot be derived from the astronomy, so this almanac does not guess at it.

What the classical tables make of this day

Tithi

Ekādaśī belongs to the Nandā family of tithis — the 1st, 6th, 11th of either fortnight.

Source: Bṛhat Saṁhitā, the tithi-karmaguṇa chapter, v. 2 — tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, 1884.

Nakṣatra

Svātī is one of the cara (moving) asterisms.

“Asterisms for works of a moving character.”

Source: Bṛhat Saṁhitā of Varāhamihira, the nakṣatra-karmaguṇa chapter (vv. 6–11) — tr. N. Chidambaram Iyer, 1884.

The windows of the day

Rāhu-kāla Left alone 14:11-15:53
Yamaghaṇṭa Left alone 05:43-07:24
Gulika Left alone 09:06-10:48
Abhijit Taken 12:02-12:57

Rāhu-kāla runs 14:11-15:53, yamaghaṇṭa 05:43-07:24, gulika 09:06-10:48. Each is an eighth of this day's actual daylight at Ujjain, not a fixed clock hour.

Abhijit — the eighth of the day's fifteen equal daylight muhūrtas — runs 12:02-12:57.

Where the grahas stand

Graha	Rāśi	Degree	Motion
Sūrya	Mithuna	9°15′	Direct
Chandra	Tulā	14°35′	Direct
Maṅgala	Vṛṣabha	3°02′	Direct
Budha	Karka	1°10′	Direct
Guru	Karka	4°39′	Direct
Śukra	Karka	19°08′	Direct
Śani	Mīna	19°40′	Direct
Rāhu	Kumbha	7°32′	Retrograde
Ketu	Siṃha	7°32′	Retrograde

No graha is retrograde at sunrise. Rāhu and Ketu are reckoned perpetually retrograde and are not counted here.

Stations and ingresses

No graha changed direction or rāśi on this day, among those tracked.

A station is the change of sign of a body’s speed, and an ingress the crossing of a sidereal (Lāhirī) rāśi boundary. Both are read from consecutive 12:00 UTC samples, so the day is computed and no finer time is claimed. Stations are tracked for Maṅgala, Budha, Guru, Śukra and Śani; ingresses for Maṅgala, Guru, Śani and Rāhu.

What the tables name for this day, and what they set aside

Named 4

Marriage
First haircut
Buying a vehicle
Setting out on a journey

Unnamed 7

Entering a new home
Naming the child
First solid food
Beginning to learn
The sacred thread
Opening a business or a shop
Breaking ground

Undecided 1

Boring the ears

These four verdicts are a RANK, not a score. There is no pass mark here and no total: the classical texts rank undertakings against a day, they do not grade the day. “Unnamed” means the tables Horā can quote neither name this day for that undertaking nor bar it — it is not permission and it is not refusal.

The rules that fired, and where each comes from

Svātī is on the named list — the Pāraskara Gṛhya Sūtra names these asterisms for a marriage.

Applied to: Marriage
Horā's own activity table counts Guruvāra a favourable weekday for this undertaking — reported, not applied.

Applied to: Marriage · Entering a new home · Beginning to learn · Opening a business or a shop · Setting out on a journey
Nothing this page can quote bars the day, and nothing names Svātī for this act either.

Applied to: Entering a new home · Naming the child · First solid food · Beginning to learn · The sacred thread · Opening a business or a shop · Breaking ground
Svātī is on the named list — the chapter names the shaving asterisms outright.

Applied to: First haircut
The classical condition for this act is a chart at the chosen minute, not a day, so a month grid cannot place it either way — only rule it out on the tithi and the asterism group. The verse is printed in full with the twelve undertakings below.

Applied to: Boring the ears
Horā's own activity table names Svātī for this undertaking; the verse quoted here does not. Neither is overruled.

Applied to: Beginning to learn
Svātī is in the cara (moving) group, and “purchase of carriage” is named in the laghu list itself, and the cara asterisms are given “works of a moving character”.

Applied to: Buying a vehicle
Svātī is in the cara (moving) group, and the cara asterisms are “asterisms for works of a moving character”.

Applied to: Setting out on a journey
The verse quoted here names Svātī for this undertaking; Horā's own activity table does not. Neither is overruled.

Applied to: Setting out on a journey

The twelve undertakings, with the verse behind each one printed in full and the conventions where schools differ, are on the muhūrta page. Where a rule above refers to the verses “below”, that is the page it means.

Choosing a day against your own chart

Half of a classical election is the relation between this day’s Moon and YOUR OWN birth star — tārā bala and candra bala — which an almanac cannot print because it does not know your birth. That layer lives in the muhūrta finder, against your own chart.

What this column was computed from

Every line of this column is computed, not written. The five limbs are read at this day’s true sunrise over Ujjain — a Vedic day runs sunrise to sunrise, and a day is named by the limb current at its sunrise. Positions are sidereal (Lāhirī / Citrapakṣa ayanāṁśa) from a high-precision astronomical ephemeris; sunrise and sunset are computed by rise-transit for Ujjain’s exact coordinates, which is why the publishing time of this column moves through the year. The classical character of the tithi and the asterism, and the twelve undertakings, apply only tables this site prints verbatim with their citation. No language model wrote any part of this page, and nothing on it was retrieved from a third party.

This column reports the sky and what the classical tables name for it. It forecasts nothing about anyone, and it is not medical, legal or financial advice.

Guruvāra, Śukla Ekādaśī, Svātī nakṣatra