Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Mon 18 Jan 1954

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 05:48 on Mon 18 Jan to 05:36 on Tue 19 Jan, so it holds sunrise only on Mon 18 Jan, at 07:20. 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, 07:20 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:48, before it. Purnima ends at 05:36 Tue, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 5 Jan, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 07:14, came before Chaturdashi ended at 08:18: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Sevan · UTC+3

Sunrise here, 07:20, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:48: this day reads Purnima.

The night of Sun 17 Jan ran from sunset 16:59 Sun to sunrise 07:20, 14 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:20 to 17:00, 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 night here, 17:00 to 07:20 Tue, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 47 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′. Punarvasu spans 80°00′–93°20′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 80°. It leaves at 02:02 Tue, for Pushya.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 274.3° + 83.1° = 357.4°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 346°40′–360°00′ is the 27th, Vaidhriti. It ends at 11:40, then Vishkambha.

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 17:39, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 05:36 Tue.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:20 to 07:20 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: Dhanu gives Pausha. The Sun enters Makara on 14 Jan, inside the month. The next new moon, 3 Feb, finds it in Makara and begins Magha.

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 5 Jan, with the Sun in Dhanu, began Pausha. This Shukla paksha reads Pausha in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 15 Mar 1953, 14:04 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 302.9° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2010; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1875.