purnima
pūrṇimāThe full moon tithi, closing the waxing paksha; broadly auspicious and the date of many festivals, as amavasya is of many rites.
Where this term appears
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
Diwali is the new moon, the amavasya , of the month of Kartika . Guru Purnima is the full moon of Ashadha .
- The Rhythms Within the Month Treatise
The purnima , the full moon, is broadly auspicious, a night of completion and light, and a great many festivals fall on it: Guru Purnima , Holi , Raksha Bandhan , the Buddha 's birth in the wider tradition.
- The Summer Turn Treatise
On the full moon of Ashadha , as the monsoon settles in, comes Guru Purnima .
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
When a seeker on the full-moon of Guru Purnima honours the succession of teachers that carried the knowledge to him, the succession is understood to begin here, under the banyan, in the quiet.
- Why is a coconut broken in Hindu ceremonies? Journal
On the full-moon day the western coast calls Narali Purnima, the fishing communities of the Konkan carry coconuts to the shore and cast them into the sea, an offering to Varuna to calm the waters and open the s…
- The city of four faiths Treatise
Once a year, at Buddha Purnima , the Buddhist world comes back to Sarnath.
- The Court Treatise
Lalita herself is the sixteenth - Sadakhya Maha Nitya - the full moon, the purnima , the figure of whom the fifteen Nityas are the partial expressions across the days of the waxing fortnight.