Panchang in Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia Fri 28 Mar 2059

Holika is burnt in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset, outside bhadra. Purnima runs from 05:46 on Fri 28 Mar to 07:48 on Sat 29 Mar, so only Friday’s pradosha (19:20–21:37) falls within it.

Holika Dahan: every date in Sevan

Purnima follows the tithi at sunrise. Purnima holds both sunrises, 06:50 on Fri 28 Mar and 06:49 on Sat 29 Mar. Over two sunrises the Nirnayasindhu takes the first: Fri 28 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, 06:50 here. Chaturdashi ended at 05:46, before it. Purnima ends at 07:48 Sat, when the lead reaches 180°. The lead passed 0° at the new moon of 14 Mar, so the Moon is waxing: Shukla paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Purnima began at 05:46, before sunrise at 06:50, and ends at 07:48 Sat, after the next sunrise at 06:49 Sat. 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, 06:16, came before Chaturdashi ended at 07:16: this day reads Chaturdashi.

Sevan · UTC+4

Sunrise here, 06:50, came after Chaturdashi ended at 05:46: this day reads Purnima.

The night of Thu 27 Mar ran from sunset 19:19 Thu to sunrise 06:50, 11 h 31 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:50 to 19:20, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 33 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:20 to 06:49 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 26 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 Phalguni spans 146°40′–160°00′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 150°. It leaves at 00:16 Sat, for Hasta.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 342.8° + 151.3° = 494.1°, one full turn and 134.1°. Past the turn, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, it gives the yoga: 133°20′–146°40′ is the 11th, Vriddhi. It ends at 06:07 Sat, then Dhruva.

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 18:49, when the lead reaches 174°; Bava until 07:48 Sat.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:50 to 06:49 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: Kumbha gives Phalguna. The Sun enters Meena on 15 Mar, inside the month. The next new moon, 12 Apr, 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 14 Mar, 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: 24 Mar 2058, 13:50 Sun. Since then the Sun has moved 363.5° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2115; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1980.