Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 20 Oct 2002

Sharad Purnima’s night centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Purnima runs from 05:48 on Sun 20 Oct to 08:20 on Mon 21 Oct, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (23:30–00:18 Mon) falls within it. No text giving Sharad Purnima’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Sharad Purnima: every date in Diffa

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima holds both sunrises, 06:00 on Sun 20 Oct and 06:01 on Mon 21 Oct. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Sun 20 Oct. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Diffa

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, 06:00 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:48, before it. Purnima ends at 08:20 Mon, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 05:48, before sunrise at 06:00, and ends at 08:20 Mon, after the next sunrise at 06:01 Mon. Both days read Purnima: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:24, came before Chaturdashi ended at 10:18: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:00, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:48: this day reads Purnima.

The night of Sat 19 Oct ran from sunset 17:48 Sat to sunrise 06:00, 12 h 12 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:00 to 17:47, 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 night here, 17:47 to 06:01 Mon, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Revati spans 346°40′–360°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 350°. It leaves at 00:34 Mon, for Ashwini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 182.7° + 350.8° = 533.5°, one full turn and 173.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 06:28 Mon, 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 runs until 19:04, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 08:20 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:00 to 06:01 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

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 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 4 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 6 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: 12 Apr 2002, 20:21 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 183.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2059; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1924.