Panchang in Baoding, Hebei, China Mon 17 Feb 2003

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 10:01 on Sun 16 Feb to 07:51 on Mon 17 Feb, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 17 Feb, at 07:07. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Baoding

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 168°–180° is the 15th, Shukla Purnima. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:07 here. Chaturdashi ended at 10:01 Sun, before it. Purnima ends at 07:51, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 1 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 07:51 and ended at 05:16 Tue, between the sunrises of 07:07 and 07:06 Tue. Monday reads Purnima and Tuesday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:58, came after Purnima ended at 05:21: this day reads Pratipada.

Baoding · UTC+8

Sunrise here, 07:07, came before Purnima ended at 07:51: this day reads Purnima. Pratipada ends at 05:16 Tue, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Pratipada: it is kshaya.

The night of Sun 16 Feb ran from sunset 17:55 Sun to sunrise 07:07, 13 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 52 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:07 to 17:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 21 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:56 to 07:06 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 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′. Magha spans 120°00′–133°20′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 123°20′. It leaves at 23:23, for Purva Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 304° + 123.6° = 427.6°, one full turn and 67.6°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 66°40′–80°00′ is the 6th, Atiganda. It ends at 02:30 Tue, then Sukarma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Purnima is Vishti and the second Bava. Vishti ended at 21:00 Sun, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 07:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:07 to 07:06 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Makara gives Magha. The Sun enters Kumbha on 13 Feb, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Mar, finds it in Kumbha and begins Phalguna.

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 1 Feb, with the Sun in Makara, began Magha. This Shukla paksha reads Magha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 13 Apr 2002, 03:21 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 305.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2059; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1924.