Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā · 1938

Saturday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 156 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 13 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 15:15 on Fri 13 May to 16:39 on Sat 14 May.

    1938-05-13T07:14:56Z → 1938-05-14T08:38:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 13th, 11:51–12:39 on the 14th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9376 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1938: Saturday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā 1938 falls on Saturday 14 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:15 on Fri 13 May to 16:39 on Sat 14 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1938/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:15 → 00:3911:2548 min11:250 min13 May
Chicago02:15 → 03:3912:2348 min12:230 min13 May
Jersey City03:15 → 04:3912:2948 min12:290 min13 May
Port of Spain03:15 → 04:3911:3848 min11:380 min13 May
London08:15 → 09:3912:3348 min12:330 min13 May
Durban09:15 → 10:3911:2848 min11:280 min13 May
Dubai11:15 → 12:3911:5148 min11:5148 min13 May
Delhi12:45 → 14:0911:530 min11:5348 min14 May
Kolkata12:45 → 14:0911:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore14:35 → 15:5911:570 min11:5748 min14 May
Sydney17:15 → 18:3911:270 min11:2748 min14 May
Suva19:15 → 20:3911:380 min11:3848 min14 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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