Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 1 Oct 1944

Sharad Purnima’s night centres on nishitha, the midnight muhurta. Purnima runs from 14:45 on Sun 1 Oct to 10:51 on Mon 2 Oct, so only Sunday night’s nishitha (00:54 Mon–01:42 Mon) falls within it. No text giving Sharad Purnima’s time was found; nishitha is Tithika’s convention.

Sharad Purnima: every date in Pāthardi

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, 07:19 here. Trayodashi ended at 18:32 Sat, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 14:45, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 Sep, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 30 Sep ran from sunset 19:18 Sat to sunrise 07:19, 12 h 1 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 48 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:19 to 19:17, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 29 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:17 to 07:19 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 30 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′. Purva Bhadrapada spans 320°00′–333°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 326°40′. It leaves at 15:22, for Uttara Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 164.6° + 328.2° = 492.8°, one full turn and 132.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 120°00′–133°20′ is the 10th, Ganda. It ends at 08:02, then Vriddhi.

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 04:40, when the lead reached 162°; Vanija runs until 14:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:19 to 07:19 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 16 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 17 Oct, 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 17 Sep, 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: 24 Mar 1944, 18:06 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 184° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2001; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1866.