Panchang in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador Thu 17 Oct 2024

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 10:11 on Wed 16 Oct to 06:26 on Thu 17 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 17 Oct, at 05:55. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Cuenca

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, 05:55 here. Chaturdashi ended at 10:11 Wed, before it. Purnima ends at 06:26, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 2 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 06:26 and ended at 02:45 Fri, between the sunrises of 05:55 and 05:55 Fri. Thursday reads Purnima and Friday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 16 Oct ran from sunset 18:06 Wed to sunrise 05:55, 11 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 47 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:55 to 18:06, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:06 to 05:55 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 0°. It leaves at 02:56 Fri, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 180.4° + 0.1° = 180.5°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 15:11, then Vajra.

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 20:18 Wed, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 06:26.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:55 to 05:55 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 16 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 2 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 13:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 185.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.