Priti is the second nityayoga, and its name means affection, love, or delight. In the traditional classification it is an auspicious yoga, one of the favourable configurations the panchanga marks as suitable for beginning good works, forming bonds, and undertaking matters of the heart. Like every nityayoga it is defined by the sum of the solar and lunar longitudes divided into twenty-seven parts, advancing as the two lights draw apart through the month. As one of the five limbs of the daily almanac, tithi, weekday, nakshatra, yoga, and karana, the yoga contributes its own quality to the reckoning of an auspicious moment. These are the conventions of the calendar tradition, in which the twenty-seven yogas each carry a fixed favourable or unfavourable character consulted in selecting a muhurta.
Each nityayoga spans exactly thirteen degrees twenty minutes of the combined solar-lunar longitude, since three hundred sixty degrees divided by twenty-seven gives that figure precisely, which is the same angular width as a full nakshatra, though the two twenty-seven-fold divisions are reckoned from different quantities, a nakshatra from the Moon's longitude alone and a nityayoga from the summed longitude of Sun and Moon together, so a given calendar day's yoga and its nakshatra advance at different rates and only rarely align by name or number. Priti's name is also the ordinary Sanskrit word used across a wide range of religious and literary contexts for affectionate devotion, distinct from kama, desire, or sneha, tender attachment, and classical Sanskrit poetics treats the distinction between these related terms for love and fondness as a genuine point of technical nuance.