Ruling · Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata · 1913

Wednesday 18 June

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 295 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Tuesday 17 June

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:58
19:2119:4520:0920:3320:5721:2121:45

0 of 73 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 18 June

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:58
19:2119:4520:0920:3320:5721:2121:45

73 of 73 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 02:23 on Wed 18 Jun to 01:53 on Thu 19 Jun.

    1913-06-17T18:22:56Z → 1913-06-18T17:53:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:45–20:58 on the 17th, 19:45–20:58 on the 18th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 73 minutes on the 17th and 73 of 73 on the 18th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 17704 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata, Baoding, 1913: Wednesday 18 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata 1913 falls on Wednesday 18 June. Pūrṇimā runs from 02:23 on Wed 18 Jun to 01:53 on Thu 19 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1913/vata-savitri-vrata · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 18 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 18 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 18 Jun
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/vata-savitri-vrata · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Jyeṣṭha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Vata-savitri vrata (Deccan) (pradosavyapini, purvaviddha), Snanayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 17thCoveredSunset 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:23 → 09:5319:0677 min19:060 min17 Jun
Chicago12:23 → 11:5319:2770 min19:280 min17 Jun
Jersey City13:23 → 12:5319:2971 min19:300 min17 Jun
Port of Spain14:23 → 13:5318:2990 min18:290 min17 Jun
London18:23 → 17:5320:2059 min20:200 min17 Jun
Durban20:23 → 19:5317:030 min17:03110 min18 Jun
Dubai22:04 → 21:3418:510 min18:5183 min18 Jun
Delhi23:53 → 23:2319:200 min19:2180 min18 Jun
Kolkata23:53 → 23:2318:220 min18:2384 min18 Jun
Singapore01:23 → 00:5318:110 min18:1195 min18 Jun
Sydney04:23 → 03:5316:520 min16:53113 min18 Jun
Suva06:18 → 05:4817:330 min17:33104 min18 Jun
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vata-savitri-vrata@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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