Panchang in Diffa, Niger Sun 23 Dec 2007

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 05:32 on Sun 23 Dec to 02:15 on Mon 24 Dec, so it holds sunrise only on Sun 23 Dec, at 06:28. 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, 06:28 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:32, before it. Purnima ends at 02:15 Mon, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 9 Dec, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:10, came before Chaturdashi ended at 10:02: this day reads Chaturdashi. Purnima ends at 06:45 Mon, before the next sunrise, so no day here reads Purnima: it is kshaya.

Diffa · UTC+1

Sunrise here, 06:28, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:32: this day reads Purnima.

The night of Sat 22 Dec ran from sunset 17:48 Sat to sunrise 06:28, 12 h 40 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 50 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:28 to 17:48, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 25 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:48 to 06:28 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 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′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 53°20′. It leaves at 00:19 Mon, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 247° + 55.6° = 302.6°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 293°20′–306°40′ is the 23rd, Shubha. It ends at 12:36, then Shukla.

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 15:52, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 02:15 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:28 to 06:28 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 8 Jan, finds it in Dhanu and begins Pausha.

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 9 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, began Margashirsha. This Shukla paksha reads Margashirsha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2007, 03:42 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 272.8° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.