Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Wed 28 Nov 2012

Kartik Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 16:04 on Tue 27 Nov to 18:45 on Wed 28 Nov, so it holds sunrise only on Wed 28 Nov, at 08:01. No text giving Kartik Purnima’s time was found; sunrise is Tithika’s convention.

Kartik Purnima: every date in Sevan

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima runs from 16:04 on Tue 27 Nov to 18:45 on Wed 28 Nov, so it holds sunrise only on Wed 28 Nov, at 08:01. 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, 08:01 here. Chaturdashi ended at 16:04 Tue, before it. Purnima ends at 18:45, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Nov, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

The night of Tue 27 Nov ran from sunset 17:35 Tue to sunrise 08:01, 14 h 26 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 57 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 08:01 to 17:34, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 11 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:34 to 08:02 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 48 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′. Krittika spans 26°40′–40°00′; the Moon entered its pada 4 at 36°40′. It leaves at 13:11, for Rohini.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 222.3° + 37.5° = 259.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 253°20′–266°40′ is the 20th, Shiva. It ends at 20:59, then Siddha.

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 05:24, when the lead reached 174°; Bava runs until 18:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 08:01 to 08:02 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

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: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 16 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 13 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

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 14 Nov, with the Sun in Tula, began Kartika. This Shukla paksha reads Kartika in both counts.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 22 Mar 2012, 18:37 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 244° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2069; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1934.