Ruling · Kārtikī Pūrṇimā · 1901

Tuesday 26 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 33 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 25 November

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
Pūrṇimā begins 13:02:20
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 26 November

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 13:02 on Mon 25 Nov to 09:18 on Tue 26 Nov.

    1901-11-25T05:02:20Z → 1901-11-26T01:17:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:41–12:29 on the 25th, 11:41–12:29 on the 26th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: unstated → second-day · margin 2009 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kārtikī Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1901: Tuesday 26 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kārtikī Pūrṇimā 1901 falls on Tuesday 26 November. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:02 on Mon 25 Nov to 09:18 on Tue 26 Nov, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1901/kartiki-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 26 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 26 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 25 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/kartiki-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 15 Rasayatra, (nisithavyapini, i.e. covering a period from 24 minutes before to 24 minutes after midnight. If occurs on two days or does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the second day), Puskar Fair. Ratha yatra (Jain), Tripurotsava (evening), Kedara vrata (Orissa), Kartiki purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 25thCoveredMadhyāhna 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:02 → 17:1811:1648 min11:160 min25 Nov
Chicago23:02 → 19:1811:1348 min11:140 min25 Nov
Jersey City00:02 → 20:1811:1948 min11:190 min25 Nov
Port of Spain01:02 → 21:1811:2948 min11:290 min25 Nov
London05:02 → 01:1811:2348 min11:240 min25 Nov
Durban06:32 → 02:4810:4948 min10:490 min25 Nov
Dubai08:43 → 04:5911:2348 min11:230 min25 Nov
Delhi10:23 → 06:3911:3548 min11:350 min25 Nov
Kolkata10:23 → 06:3910:5048 min10:510 min25 Nov
Singapore11:57 → 08:1311:2213 min11:230 min25 Nov
Sydney15:02 → 11:1811:180 min11:180 min26 Nov
Suva16:57 → 13:1311:240 min11:2448 min26 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
kartiki-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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