Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 1931

Monday 26 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 580 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Sunday 25 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Monday 26 January

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

112 of 112 minutes covered

Saptamī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 17:12 on Sun 25 Jan to 19:17 on Mon 26 Jan.

    1931-01-25T09:11:49Z → 1931-01-26T11:16:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:31 on the 25th, 05:39–07:31 on the 26th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 112 minutes on the 25th and 112 of 112 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 34828 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 1931: Monday 26 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 1931 falls on Monday 26 January. Saptamī runs from 17:12 on Sun 25 Jan to 19:17 on Mon 26 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1931/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 26 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 26 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 26 Jan
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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 25thCoveredAruṇodaya 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:12 → 03:1705:06109 min05:060 min25 Jan
Chicago03:12 → 05:1705:16114 min05:161 min25 Jan
Jersey City04:12 → 06:1705:20113 min05:2057 min25 Jan
Port of Spain05:12 → 07:1704:5178 min04:5199 min26 Jan
London09:12 → 11:1705:480 min05:47122 min26 Jan
Durban11:12 → 13:1703:550 min03:5683 min26 Jan
Dubai13:12 → 15:1705:200 min05:20105 min26 Jan
Delhi14:42 → 16:4705:270 min05:26107 min26 Jan
Kolkata14:42 → 16:4704:350 min04:34104 min26 Jan
Singapore16:12 → 18:1704:400 min04:4096 min26 Jan
Sydney19:12 → 21:1703:480 min03:4981 min26 Jan
Suva21:12 → 23:1704:210 min04:2188 min26 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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