Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Thu 21 Jul 2005

Guru Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 19:53 on Wed 20 Jul to 16:00 on Thu 21 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 21 Jul, at 06:47. 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 19:53 on Wed 20 Jul to 16:00 on Thu 21 Jul, so it holds sunrise only on Thu 21 Jul, at 06:47. 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, 06:47 here. Chaturdashi ended at 19:53 Wed, before it. Purnima ends at 16:00, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 6 Jul, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Wed 20 Jul ran from sunset 21:26 Wed to sunrise 06:47, 9 h 21 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 37 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:47 to 21:25, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 21:25 to 06:47 Fri, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 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′. Uttara Ashadha spans 266°40′–280°00′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 266°40′. It leaves at 00:04 Fri, for Shravana.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 94.5° + 269° = 363.5°, one full turn and 3.5°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 0°00′–13°20′ is the 1st, Vishkambha. It ends at 21:22, then Priti.

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 05:58, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 16:00.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:47 to 06:47 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: Mithuna gives Ashadha. The Sun enters Karka on 16 Jul, inside the month. The next new moon, 5 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 6 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: 9 Apr 2005, 01:32 Sat. Since then the Sun has moved 99.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2062; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1927.