Ruling · Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) · 1938

Friday 6 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 342 minutes.

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The two middays

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

Midday of Thursday 5 May

Saptamī 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 Friday 6 May

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

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

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 20:33 on Thu 5 May to 18:21 on Fri 6 May.

    1938-05-05T12:33:30Z → 1938-05-06T10:21:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 5th, 11:51–12:39 on the 6th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 5th and 48 of 48 on the 6th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 20533 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gaṅgotpatti, Baoding, 1938: Friday 6 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) 1938 falls on Friday 6 May. Saptamī runs from 20:33 on Thu 5 May to 18:21 on Fri 6 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 6 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 6 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 6 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/gangotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 7 Gangotpatti, (madhyahna vyapini, if occurs on two successive days, the first day is to be observed), Jahnu saptami, Sarkara saptami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 5thCoveredMadhyāhna 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:33 → 02:2111:2648 min11:260 min5 May
Chicago07:33 → 05:2112:2448 min12:240 min5 May
Jersey City08:33 → 06:2112:2948 min12:290 min5 May
Port of Spain08:33 → 06:2111:3948 min11:390 min5 May
London13:33 → 11:2112:340 min12:340 min6 May
Durban14:33 → 12:2111:280 min11:2848 min6 May
Dubai16:33 → 14:2111:520 min11:5248 min6 May
Delhi18:03 → 15:5111:540 min11:5448 min6 May
Kolkata18:03 → 15:5111:090 min11:0948 min6 May
Singapore19:53 → 17:4111:570 min11:5748 min6 May
Sydney22:33 → 20:2111:280 min11:2848 min6 May
Suva00:33 → 22:2111:390 min11:3948 min6 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gangotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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