Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1914

Tuesday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 29 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Monday 19 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:31 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:12
06:0706:5507:4308:3109:1910:07

0 of 222 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 20 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:32 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:12
06:0806:5607:4408:3209:2010:08

221 of 221 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 14:33 on Mon 19 Oct to 10:41 on Tue 20 Oct.

    1914-10-19T06:33:16Z → 1914-10-20T02:41:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:31–10:12 on the 19th, 06:32–10:12 on the 20th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 222 minutes on the 19th and 221 of 221 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1733 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1914: Tuesday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1914 falls on Tuesday 20 October. Pratipadā runs from 14:33 on Mon 19 Oct to 10:41 on Tue 20 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1914/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 20 Oct
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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:33 → 18:4106:01224 min06:020 min19 Oct
Chicago00:33 → 20:4106:07219 min06:080 min19 Oct
Jersey City01:33 → 21:4106:11220 min06:120 min19 Oct
Port of Spain02:33 → 22:4105:55237 min05:560 min19 Oct
London06:33 → 02:4106:30207 min06:320 min19 Oct
Durban08:33 → 04:4105:1559 min05:140 min19 Oct
Dubai10:14 → 06:2206:000 min06:0022 min20 Oct
Delhi12:03 → 08:1106:240 min06:25107 min20 Oct
Kolkata12:03 → 08:1105:340 min05:35156 min20 Oct
Singapore13:33 → 09:4105:480 min05:47234 min20 Oct
Sydney16:33 → 12:4105:110 min05:10261 min20 Oct
Suva18:28 → 14:3605:310 min05:30251 min20 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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