Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 1905

Sunday 12 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 128 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Saturday 11 February

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:28 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:16
05:0405:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:28

0 of 108 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 12 February

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:27 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:15
05:0305:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:27

107 of 107 minutes covered

Saptamī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 09:24 on Sat 11 Feb to 11:30 on Sun 12 Feb.

    1905-02-11T01:23:45Z → 1905-02-12T03:29:51Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:28–07:16 on the 11th, 05:27–07:15 on the 12th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 108 minutes on the 11th and 107 of 107 on the 12th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one dawn qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7675 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 1905: Sunday 12 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 1905 falls on Sunday 12 February. Saptamī runs from 09:24 on Sat 11 Feb to 11:30 on Sun 12 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1905/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 12 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 12 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 12 Feb
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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 11thCoveredAruṇodaya 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:24 → 19:3004:57105 min04:560 min11 Feb
Chicago19:24 → 21:3005:04109 min05:030 min11 Feb
Jersey City20:24 → 22:3005:08108 min05:070 min11 Feb
Port of Spain21:24 → 23:3004:5098 min04:500 min11 Feb
London01:24 → 03:3005:29114 min05:280 min11 Feb
Durban03:24 → 05:3004:0786 min04:0882 min11 Feb
Dubai05:05 → 07:1104:5693 min04:55102 min12 Feb
Delhi06:45 → 08:5105:1110 min05:11103 min12 Feb
Kolkata06:45 → 08:5104:210 min04:21101 min12 Feb
Singapore08:19 → 10:2504:370 min04:3795 min12 Feb
Sydney11:24 → 13:3004:020 min04:0285 min12 Feb
Suva13:19 → 15:2504:230 min04:2390 min12 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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