Ekādaśī
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Harivāsara · bright Ekādaśī · dark Ekādaśī · eleventh day
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Vīramitrodaya
The eleventh lunar day, a major fasting tithi whose correct determination (timing, conjunction, applicability by group) is the central legal-ritual problem of this passage.
> All the *tithis*, beginning with Pratipad, from one sunrise of the sun to the next, are known as complete, with the exception of Harivāsara (Ekādaśī).
And here, of the two things that are generally established—its beginning from sunrise and its continuing until the next sunrise—which are stated as completeness, only the former is excluded for Ekādaśī, not the latter, for the sake of syntactical unity with the *Bhaviṣya* verse.
> The Ekādaśī that is conjoined with the two *muhūrtas* before the time of sunrise is complete;