ekadasi fast broken after sunrise?

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HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami wrote:

 

> After an especially short

> Ekadasi, measuring only eighteen hours, about six hours of the lunar day

> in which the fast had to be broken, namely the Dvadasi, had already

> expired before the dawn. Since at sunrise the proper time for breaking the

> fast would have passed,

 

HH Bhanu Swami wrote:

 

> the rule for the limit on breaking the fast is that it should be done

> before one quarter of the dvadasi has passed. this will be very shortly

> after the sunrise in some rare cases, perhaps a few moments.

 

This still dosen't answer the question is why that day Ekadasi was short

only of eighteen hours as mentioned in the purport. To my knowledge we have

never experienced such a short Ekadasi because we have never had to break

our fast like 2.00 or 3.00 am in the morning. Is there mention of this short

Ekadasi in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa or other books?

 

Does that also mean that the Ekadasi is normally of 24 hours from sunrise to

next sunrise?

 

> Another query: according to sastra, which part of the night is too early

> for bathing?

 

I think it is that part of night before the brahma muhurta.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-rañjana d€sa