Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 31 Aug 1928

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 06:45 on Thu 30 Aug to 05:33 on Fri 31 Aug, so it holds sunrise only on Fri 31 Aug, at 05:25. 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, 05:25 here. Chaturdashi ended at 06:45 Thu, before it. Purnima ends at 05:33, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 15 Aug, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 05:33 and ended at 03:54 Sat, between the sunrises of 05:25 and 05:26 Sat. Friday reads Purnima and Saturday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 30 Aug ran from sunset 18:35 Thu to sunrise 05:25, 10 h 50 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 43 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 05:25 to 18:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 38 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:34 to 05:26 Sat, 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′. Shatabhisha spans 306°40′–320°00′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 313°20′. It leaves at 15:00, for Purva Bhadrapada.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 134.6° + 314.5° = 449.1°, one full turn and 89.1°. 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 12:22, 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 ended at 18:13 Thu, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 05:33.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 05:25 to 05:26 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

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: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 14 Sep, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

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 15 Aug, with the Sun in Karka, began Shravana. This Shukla paksha reads Shravana in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 21 Mar 1928, 23:29 Wed. Since then the Sun has moved 156.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 1985; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1850.