paksha
pakṣaA fortnight, one half of a lunar month: the bright (shukla) half when the moon waxes or the dark (krishna) half when it wanes.
Where this term appears
- What is Ganesh Chaturthi? Worship
It falls on the chaturthi , the fourth lunar day, of the shukla paksha , the bright waxing fortnight, in the lunar month of Bhadrapada .
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The debt to the ancestors is real doctrine, woven through the oldest layers of the tradition, and the annual fortnight of Pitru Paksha and the great ancestral rites at Gaya are its living observance.
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
Fortnights and months Fifteen tithis make a paksha , a fortnight, and here the calendar takes on a quality the solar calendar lacks entirely: it tracks the direction of the moon's light as well as the count of …
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
The reader can read any date in this treatise: a tithi in a paksha in a masa , set in its ayana , counted in its era.
- The debt to the dead Treatise
…nd the great yearly offering of the fortnight of the ancestors, Pitru Paksha , the dark half-month in the autumn when every family turns to feed its dead.