tithi
तिथि tithiA lunar day, one thirtieth of a synodic lunar month; the basic unit of the Hindu lunar calendar, reckoned in the panchanga alongside the nakshatra and the paksha.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
… 1,830 civil days, 62 synodic months from new moon to new moon, 1,860 tithis or lunar days, and two intercalary months, adhikamasa , slotted in to drag the moon back into step with the sun.
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
It holds one thousand eight hundred and sixty tithis , the lunar days, each a thirtieth of a lunar month and so a little shorter than a civil day.
- One Festival, Many Names Treatise
Most festivals follow the moon, fixed to a tithi , and so they fall in different Gregorian months in different years.
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
The Hindu day of the calendar is not the span from one midnight to the next. It is the tithi , the lunar day.
- The Burning and the Colours Treatise
The Goddess in yellow Spring announces itself on the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Magha , in late January or early February, with Vasant Panchami .
- The Clay and the Harvest Treatise
The god of clay On the fourth tithi of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada , the elephant-headed god comes to stay.
- The Court Treatise
The fifteen goddesses correspond to the fifteen tithis of the waxing lunar fortnight.
- The Great Night Treatise
The fourteenth tithi of the dark fortnight, the chaturdashi , the last full night before the new moon.