Panchang for Saturday, 19 June 2027

Tithi	Purnima
Paksha	Shukla
Nakshatra	Mula, pada 1
Yoga	Shubha
Karana	Bava
Vara	Shanivara
Sunrise (Ujjain, IST)	05:41
Sunset (Ujjain, IST)	19:15

Today's tithi is Purnima, in the Shukla paksha, the waxing half of the lunar month. The Moon moves through Mula nakshatra, pada 1. The vara is Shanivara, and the panchang's remaining limbs are Shubha yoga and Bava karana.

What is Bava karana?

Bava is the first of the seven movable karanas, each karana being half a tithi or six degrees of distance between the Moon and the Sun, and it is the one the tradition associates with things meant to continue.

A karana is the finest of the five limbs. Where a tithi spans twelve degrees of separation between the Moon and the Sun, a karana spans six, so two of them fill every tithi and sixty of them fill a lunar month. Eleven names cover those sixty: seven movable ones that repeat eight times each, and four fixed ones that appear exactly once a month around Amavasya.

Bava opens the movable set, and it is the karana that follows the fixed Kimstughna at the very start of Shukla paksha, so its first appearance each month coincides with the beginning of the bright fortnight. That placement is part of why the classical lists keep it for beginnings, for the start of a stretch of work, and for anything intended to run on rather than finish.

In a day's panchang the karana is the detail you read last, after the tithi has already told you the phase. It is worth noticing when the two halves of a tithi carry different karanas, which is normal, because it means the second half of the day was described differently from the first.