Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sat 30 May 1942

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 14:50 on Fri 29 May to 10:58 on Sat 30 May, so it holds sunrise only on Sat 30 May, at 05:50. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Pāthardi

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, 05:50 here. Chaturdashi ended at 14:50 Fri, before it. Purnima ends at 10:58, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Fri 29 May ran from sunset 19:01 Fri to sunrise 05:50, 10 h 49 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:50 to 19:02, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:02 to 05:50 Sun, 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 fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Anuradha spans 213°20′–226°40′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 220°. It leaves at 13:23, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 44.9° + 221.8° = 266.7°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 266°40′–280°00′ is the 21st, Siddha. It ends at 01:21 Sun, then Sadhya.

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 00:56, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 10:58.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:50 to 05:50 Sun, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shaniwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 15 May 11:15 Fri to 14 Jun 02:31 Sun the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 00:06 Mon, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Jyeshtha, before Jyeshtha itself.

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 15 May, with the Sun in Vrishabha, began Jyeshtha (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Jyeshtha (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 17 Mar 1942, 06:19 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 72.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1999; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1864.