Ruling · Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) · 1936

Tuesday 10 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 458 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 9 November

Dvādaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
16:4617:1017:3417:5818:2218:4619:1019:34

0 of 110 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 10 November

Taken. The only evening Dvādaśī reaches.

17:09 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:59
16:4517:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

110 of 110 minutes covered

Dvādaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 02:38 on Tue 10 Nov to 05:01 on Wed 11 Nov.

    1936-11-09T18:37:40Z → 1936-11-10T21:00:52Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:10–19:00 on the 9th, 17:09–18:59 on the 10th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 110 minutes on the 9th and 110 of 110 on the 10th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 27473 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Govatsa Dvādaśī, Baoding, 1936: Tuesday 10 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) 1936 falls on Tuesday 10 November. Dvādaśī runs from 02:38 on Tue 10 Nov to 05:01 on Wed 11 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1936/govatsa-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 10 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 10 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 10 Nov
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/govatsa-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 12 Govatsa dvadasi (pradosa vyapini). If occurs on two days, it is to be observed on the first day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīSunset 9thCoveredSunset 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:38 → 13:0116:53108 min16:520 min9 Nov
Chicago13:38 → 16:0117:35112 min17:340 min9 Nov
Jersey City13:38 → 16:0116:44111 min16:430 min9 Nov
Port of Spain14:38 → 17:0117:4099 min17:400 min9 Nov
London18:38 → 21:0116:200 min16:18119 min10 Nov
Durban20:38 → 23:0118:240 min18:2584 min10 Nov
Dubai22:38 → 01:0117:340 min17:33104 min10 Nov
Delhi00:08 → 02:3117:310 min17:30105 min10 Nov
Kolkata00:08 → 02:3116:550 min16:55103 min10 Nov
Singapore01:58 → 04:2118:100 min18:1096 min10 Nov
Sydney04:38 → 07:0118:300 min18:3182 min10 Nov
Suva06:38 → 09:0118:160 min18:1789 min10 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
govatsa-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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