Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1918

Tuesday 23 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 460 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 22 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:39 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:55
19:1519:3920:0320:2720:5121:1521:39

0 of 76 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 23 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:38 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:54
19:1419:3820:0220:2620:5021:1421:38

76 of 76 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 06:23 on Tue 23 Jul to 04:34 on Wed 24 Jul.

    1918-07-22T22:22:54Z → 1918-07-23T20:34:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:39–20:55 on the 22nd, 19:38–20:54 on the 23rd.

    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 76 minutes on the 22nd and 76 of 76 on the 23rd.

    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 27602 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1918: Tuesday 23 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1918 falls on Tuesday 23 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 06:23 on Tue 23 Jul to 04:34 on Wed 24 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1918/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 23 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 23 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 23 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 22ndCoveredSunset 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:23 → 13:3420:0180 min20:010 min22 Jul
Chicago17:23 → 15:3420:1974 min20:180 min22 Jul
Jersey City18:23 → 16:3420:2175 min20:210 min22 Jul
Port of Spain18:23 → 16:3418:3291 min18:320 min22 Jul
London23:23 → 21:3421:040 min21:0332 min23 Jul
Durban00:23 → 22:3417:170 min17:17108 min23 Jul
Dubai02:04 → 00:1518:500 min18:4984 min23 Jul
Delhi03:53 → 02:0419:180 min19:1883 min23 Jul
Kolkata03:53 → 02:0418:220 min18:2286 min23 Jul
Singapore05:23 → 03:3418:160 min18:1695 min23 Jul
Sydney08:23 → 06:3417:080 min17:08110 min23 Jul
Suva10:23 → 08:3417:480 min17:48102 min23 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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