Tithi
Tithi is the Vedic name of the thirtieth part of a synodic month , which corresponds to a lunar day in the Indian calendar . The first and last lunar day of the month are exclusively assigned names, while the other lunar days primarily have ordinal numbers . The 30 tithi are divided into two groups of 15 lunar days each according to the halves of the lunar month : new moon to full moon and full moon to new moon. The 30th lunar day is optionally called the thirtieth . 360 Tithi result in twelve synodic months and form the lunar year of about 354 days.
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- Robert Sewell, Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit: The Indian Calendar: With tables for the conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan into AD dates, and vice versâ (with tables of eclipses visible in India by Robert Schram) . Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi 1995, ISBN 8-1208-1207-1