Tithi
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lunar day · tithi · Amā · Amāvāsyā · Dvitīyā · Pratipad · Kuhū · Pūrṇimā · new moon day · the fifteenth of the dark fortnight
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Vīramitrodaya
The lunar day, the fundamental unit for scheduling religious rites, subject to extensive rules of determination when it spans two solar days.
Therefore, it is established that since a prohibition is determined by its presence for the entire duration of the *tithi*, a divided *tithi* does not require determination in the case of prohibitions.
In the pairs of *Yugma*-*Agni* (2nd-3rd), *Yuga*-*Bhūta* (4th-5th), *Ṣaṭ*-*Muni* (6th-7th), *Vasu*-*Randhra* (8th-9th), *Rudra*-Dvādaśī (11th-12th), Caturdaśī-Pūrṇimā (14th-15th), and Amāvāsyā-Pratipad (15th-1st), there is a mutual conjunction (*vedha*) of the *tithis*.
A divided (*khaṇḍā*) *tithi* (lunar day), however, requires determination because it exists on two days.