Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1927

Wednesday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 268 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 Wednesday 26 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:38 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1407:0207:5008:3809:2610:14

216 of 216 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 27 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:39 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1507:0307:5108:3909:2710:15

0 of 215 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 23:37 on Tue 25 Oct to 02:10 on Thu 27 Oct.

    1927-10-25T15:37:19Z → 1927-10-26T18:10:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:38–10:14 on the 26th, 06:39–10:14 on the 27th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 216 of 216 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 215 on the 27th.

    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 16103 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1927: Wednesday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1927 falls on Wednesday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 23:37 on Tue 25 Oct to 02:10 on Thu 27 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1927/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 26 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 25thCoveredSunrise 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:37 → 10:1006:06129 min06:07220 min26 Oct
Chicago09:37 → 12:1006:1410 min06:15213 min26 Oct
Jersey City10:37 → 13:1006:180 min06:19214 min26 Oct
Port of Spain11:37 → 14:1005:560 min05:56236 min26 Oct
London15:37 → 18:1006:400 min06:42201 min26 Oct
Durban17:37 → 20:1005:090 min05:08261 min26 Oct
Dubai19:37 → 22:1006:220 min06:22227 min26 Oct
Delhi21:07 → 23:4006:280 min06:28224 min26 Oct
Kolkata21:07 → 23:4005:370 min05:38229 min26 Oct
Singapore22:37 → 01:1005:470 min05:47241 min26 Oct
Sydney01:37 → 04:1005:040 min05:03265 min26 Oct
Suva03:37 → 06:1005:320 min05:31253 min26 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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