Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1924

Wednesday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 95 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 Tuesday 28 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:41 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1707:0507:5308:4109:2910:17

0 of 214 minutes covered

Forenoon of Wednesday 29 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:42 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1807:0607:5408:4209:3010:18

213 of 213 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 14:57 on Tue 28 Oct to 11:50 on Wed 29 Oct.

    1924-10-28T06:56:51Z → 1924-10-29T03:50:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:41–10:15 on the 28th, 06:42–10:15 on the 29th.

    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 214 minutes on the 28th and 213 of 213 on the 29th.

    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 5708 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1924: Wednesday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1924 falls on Wednesday 29 October. Pratipadā runs from 14:57 on Tue 28 Oct to 11:50 on Wed 29 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1924/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 29 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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:57 → 19:5006:09218 min06:100 min28 Oct
Chicago00:57 → 21:5006:18211 min06:200 min28 Oct
Jersey City01:57 → 22:5006:22212 min06:230 min28 Oct
Port of Spain02:57 → 23:5005:57235 min05:570 min28 Oct
London06:57 → 03:5006:47188 min06:490 min28 Oct
Durban08:57 → 05:5005:0632 min05:0545 min29 Oct
Dubai10:57 → 07:5006:240 min06:2486 min29 Oct
Delhi12:27 → 09:2006:300 min06:31169 min29 Oct
Kolkata12:27 → 09:2005:390 min05:39221 min29 Oct
Singapore13:57 → 10:5005:460 min05:46241 min29 Oct
Sydney16:57 → 13:5005:000 min04:59267 min29 Oct
Suva18:57 → 15:5005:300 min05:29254 min29 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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