Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 29 Jul 1912

Guru Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 05:04 on Sun 28 Jul to 07:25 on Mon 29 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 29 Jul, at 04:51. No text giving Guru Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Guru Purnima: every date in Sevan

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 05:04 on Sun 28 Jul to 07:25 on Mon 29 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 29 Jul, at 04:51. No text giving Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Purnima: every date in Sevan

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, 04:53 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:06 Sun, before it. Purnima ends at 07:27, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Sun 28 Jul ran from sunset 19:19 Sun to sunrise 04:53, 9 h 34 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:53 to 19:18, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:18 to 04:54 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 12 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′. Shravana spans 280°00′–293°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 280°. It leaves at 04:18 Tue, for Dhanishtha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 102.9° + 281.8° = 384.7°, one full turn and 24.7°. 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 08:36, 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 ended at 18:16 Sun, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 07:27.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:53 to 04:54 Tue, so the hours after midnight still belong to Somawara.

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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 15 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 12 Aug, finds it in Karka and begins Shravana.

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 14 Jul, with the Sun in Mithuna, began Ashadha. This Shukla paksha reads Ashadha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 1912, 01:08 Tue. Since then the Sun has moved 127.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1969; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1834.