Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1914

Tuesday 7 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 60 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Monday 6 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

0 of 74 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 7 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

74 of 74 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 23:48 on Mon 6 Jul to 21:59 on Tue 7 Jul.

    1914-07-06T15:47:49Z → 1914-07-07T13:59:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:46–21:00 on the 6th, 19:46–21:00 on the 7th.

    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 74 minutes on the 6th and 74 of 74 on the 7th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 3575 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1914: Tuesday 7 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1914 falls on Tuesday 7 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 23:48 on Mon 6 Jul to 21:59 on Tue 7 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1914/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 7 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 7 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 7 Jul
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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 6thCoveredSunset 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:48 → 05:5919:0777 min19:070 min6 Jul
Chicago09:48 → 07:5919:2871 min19:280 min6 Jul
Jersey City10:48 → 08:5919:3072 min19:300 min6 Jul
Port of Spain11:48 → 09:5918:3290 min18:320 min6 Jul
London15:48 → 13:5920:1960 min20:180 min6 Jul
Durban17:48 → 15:5917:0971 min17:090 min6 Jul
Dubai19:29 → 17:4018:5347 min18:530 min6 Jul
Delhi21:18 → 19:2919:220 min19:227 min7 Jul
Kolkata21:18 → 19:2918:250 min18:2565 min7 Jul
Singapore22:48 → 20:5918:150 min18:1595 min7 Jul
Sydney01:48 → 23:5916:580 min16:59112 min7 Jul
Suva03:43 → 01:5417:380 min17:38103 min7 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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