Panchang in Libode, Eastern Cape, South Africa Thu 4 Dec 2025

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima begins at 05:08 on Thu 4 Dec, after that sunrise, and ends at 01:14 on Fri 5 Dec, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Thu 4 Dec. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Libode

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:51 here. Trayodashi ended at 08:56 Wed, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 05:08, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 20 Nov, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 05:08 and ended at 01:14 Fri, between the sunrises of 04:51 and 04:51 Fri. Thursday reads Chaturdashi and Friday reads Pratipada: Purnima is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Wed 3 Dec ran from sunset 18:56 Wed to sunrise 04:51, 9 h 55 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 39 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:51 to 18:57, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 45 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:57 to 04:51 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 14 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 33°20′. It leaves at 11:24, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 228° + 35.8° = 263.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 09:04, then Siddha.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Chaturdashi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja ended at 19:03 Wed, when the lead reached 162°; Vanija runs until 05:08.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:51 to 04:51 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: Vrishchika gives Margashirsha. The Sun enters Dhanu on 16 Dec, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Dec, 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 20 Nov, 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: 29 Mar 2025, 12:57 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 243.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2082; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1947.