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The Essence of the Tantra6.12

6.12

तत्र दिनं कृष्णपक्षः रात्रिः शुक्लः तत्र पूर्वं तुट्यर्धम् अन्त्यं च तुट्यर्धं विश्रान्तिः अकालकलिताः मध्यास् तु पञ्चदश तुटय एव तिथयः तत्र प्रकाशो विश्रान्तिश् च इति एते एव दिननिशे

Transliteration (IAST)

tatra dinaṃ kṛṣṇapakṣaḥ rātriḥ śuklaḥ tatra pūrvaṃ tuṭyardham antyaṃ ca tuṭyardhaṃ viśrāntiḥ akālakalitāḥ madhyās tu pañcadaśa tuṭaya eva tithayaḥ tatra prakāśo viśrāntiś ca iti ete eva dinaniśe

— the day ; — the dark fortnight (waning moon) ; — the night ; — the bright (fortnight, waxing moon) ; — half a tuṭi ; — repose (the resting-point) ; — not measured by time (lying outside time) ; — the middle (ones) ; — the fifteen tuṭis ; — the lunar days ; — luminous manifestation ; — day and night

Therein the day is the dark fortnight and the night the bright fortnight. Of these, the first half-tuṭi and the last half-tuṭi are repose, lying outside time; but the fifteen middle tuṭis are precisely the lunar days. Therein luminous manifestation and repose — these very two are day and night.