तिथि
tithi

Sanskrit noun

Last edited: 2024-11-19
Primary meaning tithi
Literal translation tithi
Variants
तिथि tithi
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tithi unit of time

1 (mean) "tithi" = 63/64 of a day. This corresponds to 1/30 of a mean synodic month.

दिनं चतुःषष्टिलवोनमाहुस्तिथिं युशब्दान्त्यमहस्तु सर्वम् । त्रिषष्टिभागेनयुतं सहस्रं युगेवमानामपसप्तषट्कम् ॥५॥

dinaṃ catuḥṣaṣṭi-lavônam āhus tithiṃ yuśabdāntyam ahas tu sarvam | triṣaṣṭibhāgena yutaṃ sahasraṃ yuge 'vamānām apasaptaṣaṭkam |5|

‘They say that a day minus 1/64th is a tithi whereas a whole (day) is (a tithi) plus 1/63rd. The omitted (tithis) in a yuga are 1.000 minus 7 x 6. |5|’

— Yavanajātaka 79.5

Genre: astrological treatise
Date: 4th-6th century CE

Mak, B., 2013. The date and nature of Sphujidhvaja’s Yavanajātaka reconsidered in the light of some newly discovered materials, History of Science in South Asia 1: 1-20. 8-9

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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). तिथि (Lemma #1032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). तिथि (Lemma #1032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). तिथि (Lemma #1032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) तिथि (Lemma #1032), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1032,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {तिथि ({Lemma} #1032)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1032/},
}