Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Sun 18 May 1924

Buddha Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima begins at 04:46 on Sun 18 May, after that sunrise, and ends at 00:52 on Mon 19 May, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Sun 18 May. No text giving Buddha Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Buddha Purnima: every date in Sevan

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima begins at 04:46 on Sun 18 May, after that sunrise, and ends at 00:52 on Mon 19 May, before the next: it holds no sunrise. A tithi that holds no sunrise is kept on the day it is current: Sun 18 May. 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: 156°–168° is the 14th, Shukla Chaturdashi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 04:41 here. Trayodashi ended at 08:25 Sat, before it. Chaturdashi ends at 04:46, when the lead reaches 168°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 4 May, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 04:46 and ended at 00:52 Mon, between the sunrises of 04:41 and 04:40 Mon. Sunday reads Chaturdashi and Monday reads Pratipada: Purnima is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sat 17 May ran from sunset 19:11 Sat to sunrise 04:41, 9 h 30 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 38 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 04:41 to 19:11, 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, 19:11 to 04:40 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 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′. Vishakha spans 200°00′–213°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 200°. It leaves at 22:30, for Anuradha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 34° + 202° = 236°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 226°40′–240°00′ is the 18th, Variyana. It ends at 10:34, then Parigha.

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 18:38 Sat, when the lead reached 162°; Vanija runs until 04:46.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 04:41 to 04:40 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: Mesha gives Vaishakha. The Sun enters Vrishabha on 14 May, inside the month. The next new moon, 2 Jun, finds it in Vrishabha and begins Jyeshtha.

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 4 May, with the Sun in Mesha, began Vaishakha. This Shukla paksha reads Vaishakha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 4 Apr 1924, 10:17 Fri. Since then the Sun has moved 42.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1981; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1846.