Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Fri 1 Aug 1947

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima holds both sunrises, 06:05 on Fri 1 Aug and 06:05 on Sat 2 Aug. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Fri 1 Aug. 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, 06:05 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:02, before it. Purnima ends at 07:19 Sat, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 05:02, before sunrise at 06:05, and ends at 07:19 Sat, after the next sunrise at 06:05 Sat. Both days read Purnima: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Thu 31 Jul ran from sunset 19:05 Thu to sunrise 06:05, 11 h 0 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:05 to 19:05, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 37 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:05 to 06:05 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 22 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 270°. It leaves at 19:37, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 104.8° + 273.3° = 378.1°, one full turn and 18.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 13°20′–26°40′ is the 2nd, Priti. It ends at 22:04, then Ayushmana.

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 18:12, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 07:19 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:05 to 06:05 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Jul 09:45 Fri to 16 Aug 16:42 Sat the Sun stayed in Karka, entering Simha at 17 Aug 02:12 Sun, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Shravana, before Shravana 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 18 Jul, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Shravana (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 1947, 22:04 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 126.7° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2004; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1869.