Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 1 Sep 1974

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 22:47 on Sat 31 Aug to 00:54 on Mon 2 Sep, so it holds sunrise only on Sun 1 Sep, at 06:13. 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, 06:13 here. Chaturdashi ended at 22:47 Sat, before it. Purnima ends at 00:54 Mon, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 18 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sat 31 Aug ran from sunset 18:45 Sat to sunrise 06:13, 11 h 28 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 45 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:13 to 18:44, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:44 to 06:14 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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′. Dhanishtha spans 293°20′–306°40′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 303°20′. It leaves at 07:20, for Shatabhisha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 134.7° + 306.1° = 440.8°, one full turn and 80.8°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 80°00′–93°20′ is the 7th, Sukarma. It ends at 05:21 Mon, then Dhriti.

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 11:52, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 00:54 Mon.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:13 to 06:14 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 18 Aug 00:31 Sun to 16 Sep 08:15 Mon the Sun stayed in Simha, entering Kanya at 17 Sep 00:03 Tue, after the new moon. A month with no sankranti is Adhika Bhadrapada, before Bhadrapada 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 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, began Bhadrapada (Adhik). This Shukla paksha reads Bhadrapada (Adhik) in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 24 Mar 1974, 02:53 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 155.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2031; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1896.