Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 26 Oct 2007

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 13:41 on Thu 25 Oct to 09:51 on Fri 26 Oct, so it holds sunrise only on Fri 26 Oct, at 08:22. 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, 08:22 here. Chaturdashi ended at 13:41 Thu, before it. Purnima ends at 09:51, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 11 Oct, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Pratipada began at 09:51 and ended at 05:56 Sat, between the sunrises of 08:22 and 08:23 Sat. Friday reads Purnima and Saturday reads Dwitiya: Pratipada is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Thu 25 Oct ran from sunset 19:06 Thu to sunrise 08:22, 13 h 16 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 53 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:22 to 19:05, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 20 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:05 to 08:23 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 39 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′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 6°40′. It leaves at 17:32, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 188.4° + 7.5° = 195.9°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 186°40′–200°00′ is the 15th, Vajra. It ends at 14:29, then Siddhi.

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 23:47 Thu, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 09:51.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:22 to 08:23 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: Kanya gives Ashwina. The Sun enters Tula on 17 Oct, inside the month. The next new moon, 10 Nov, finds it in Tula and begins Kartika.

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 11 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, began Ashwina. This Shukla paksha reads Ashwina in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 19 Mar 2007, 06:42 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 214.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2064; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1929.