Amāvāsyā
अमावास्या
Everyday Hindi: अमावस्या
New moon: the last tithi of the dark fortnight.
Definition
Amāvāsyā ('dwelling together', of the Sun and Moon) is the tithi ending at the conjunction of the Sun and Moon, the last of kṛṣṇa pakṣa. In the amānta system the lunar month ends at amāvāsyā, and solar eclipses occur only at new moon. Several observances fall on it, including the remembrance of ancestors on Mahālaya Amāvāsyā and Dīpāvalī on Kārtika amāvāsyā.
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