Purnima · Full moon Vratam The full moon that closes the purnimanta month.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Purnima · Full moon
- हिन्दी
- पूर्णिमा
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
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This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The full moon that closes the purnimanta month. It is the standing day for the Satyanarayana vrat and katha at home, for a bath in a river, and for the monthly fast many keep for the moon. The named Purnimas (Guru, Buddha, Sharad, Kartik, Holika) are the ones with a festival attached.
- Deity
- Chandra, Satyanarayana, Vishnu
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
The hour
The rule in words
The Purnima tithi at sunrise; the katha and the puja are in the evening.
The fast
A fast through the day for those who keep it, broken after the evening puja and the sighting of the moon. The prasad is sheera, of semolina, ghee, sugar and banana.
Where the regions differ
The north ends the lunar month here, the south ends it at the new moon; the day itself is the same instant of the moon for both.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
The Satyanarayana vratam and katha at home. Pournami is the day of the vratam and Ekadasi the next best; Kartika Pournami, Vaishakha Pournami and the Sankranti days are the ones most families choose. Thursday, the day of Guru, comes first among the weekdays, and Tuesday is the one usually passed over. The puja is done in the evening and the prasadam shared after the katha, so no lagna window is computed here.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.