Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Thu 31 May 2007

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima holds both sunrises, 05:50 on Thu 31 May and 05:50 on Fri 1 Jun. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Thu 31 May. 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 05:02, before it. Purnima ends at 06:33 Fri, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 17 May, 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 05:50, and ends at 06:33 Fri, after the next sunrise at 05:50 Fri. Both days read Purnima: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

The night of Wed 30 May ran from sunset 19:02 Wed to sunrise 05:50, 10 h 48 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 Fri, 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 1 at 213°20′. It leaves at 07:24 Fri, for Jyeshtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 45.2° + 213.6° = 258.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 20:03, then Siddha.

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 17:51, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 06:33 Fri.

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

A month normally holds one sankranti, the Sun's entry into a new rashi. From 17 May 00:57 Thu to 15 Jun 08:43 Fri the Sun stayed in Vrishabha, entering Mithuna at 15 Jun 15:52 Fri, 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 17 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: 19 Mar 2007, 08:12 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 71° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.