Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1941

Tuesday 8 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 438 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 7 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 22:00
20:2220:4621:1021:3421:5822:2222:46

0 of 74 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 8 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

20:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 22:00
20:2220:4621:1021:3421:5822:2222:46

74 of 74 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 07:56 on Tue 8 Jul to 05:17 on Wed 9 Jul.

    1941-07-07T22:56:03Z → 1941-07-08T20:17:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:46–22:00 on the 7th, 20:46–22:00 on the 8th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 74 minutes on the 7th and 74 of 74 on the 8th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 26262 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1941: Tuesday 8 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1941 falls on Tuesday 8 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 07:56 on Tue 8 Jul to 05:17 on Wed 9 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1941/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 8 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 8 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 8 Jul
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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 7thCoveredSunset 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:56 → 12:1719:0778 min19:070 min7 Jul
Chicago17:56 → 15:1720:2871 min20:270 min7 Jul
Jersey City18:56 → 16:1720:3072 min20:290 min7 Jul
Port of Spain18:56 → 16:1718:3267 min18:320 min7 Jul
London00:56 → 22:1722:180 min22:170 min8 Jul
Durban00:56 → 22:1717:090 min17:10110 min8 Jul
Dubai02:56 → 00:1719:120 min19:1283 min8 Jul
Delhi04:26 → 01:4719:220 min19:2281 min8 Jul
Kolkata04:26 → 01:4718:250 min18:2584 min8 Jul
Singapore06:16 → 03:3718:350 min18:3595 min8 Jul
Sydney08:56 → 06:1716:590 min17:00112 min8 Jul
Suva10:56 → 08:1717:430 min17:43103 min8 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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