Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 12 Mar 1998

Holika is burnt in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset, outside bhadra. Purnima runs from 06:10 on Thu 12 Mar to 08:34 on Fri 13 Mar, so only Thursday’s pradosha (19:03–21:29) falls within it. Bhadra lasts until 19:20, and the Dharmasindhu keeps the rite out of bhadra: it is done from 19:20.

Holika Dahan muhurat: the time after bhadra, 19:20–21:29.

Holika Dahan: every date in Sevan

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima holds both sunrises, 07:17 on Thu 12 Mar and 07:15 on Fri 13 Mar. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Thu 12 Mar. 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, 07:17 here. Chaturdashi ended at 06:10, before it. Purnima ends at 08:34 Fri, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 26 Feb, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 06:10, before sunrise at 07:17, and ends at 08:34 Fri, after the next sunrise at 07:15 Fri. Both days read Purnima: it is a vriddhi tithi here.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:34, came before Chaturdashi ended at 07:40: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 07:17, came after Chaturdashi ended at 06:10: this day reads Purnima.

The night of Wed 11 Mar ran from sunset 19:02 Wed to sunrise 07:17, 12 h 15 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 49 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:17 to 19:03, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:03 to 07:15 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 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′. Purva Phalguni spans 133°20′–146°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 133°20′. It leaves at 04:43 Fri, for Uttara Phalguni.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 327.5° + 136° = 463.5°, one full turn and 103.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 93°20′–106°40′ is the 8th, Dhriti. It ends at 13:05, then Shula.

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 19:20, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 08:34 Fri.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:17 to 07:15 Fri, so the hours after midnight still belong to Guruwara.

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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 14 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 28 Mar, finds it in Meena and begins Chaitra.

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 26 Feb, with the Sun in Kumbha, began Phalguna. This Shukla paksha reads Phalguna in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 7 Apr 1997, 16:01 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 333.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2054; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1919.