Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1944

Wednesday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 203 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Tuesday 17 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:29 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 11:12
07:0507:5308:4109:2910:1711:05

0 of 223 minutes covered

Forenoon of Wednesday 18 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

07:30 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 11:12
07:0607:5408:4209:3010:1811:06

222 of 222 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 14:35 on Tue 17 Oct to 16:31 on Wed 18 Oct.

    1944-10-17T05:34:45Z → 1944-10-18T07:30:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:29–11:12 on the 17th, 07:30–11:12 on the 18th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 223 minutes on the 17th and 222 of 222 on the 18th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 12166 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1944: Wednesday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1944 falls on Wednesday 18 October. Pratipadā runs from 14:35 on Tue 17 Oct to 16:31 on Wed 18 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 18 Oct
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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:35 → 00:3107:00225 min07:010 min17 Oct
Chicago00:35 → 02:3107:05220 min07:070 min17 Oct
Jersey City01:35 → 03:3107:10221 min07:110 min17 Oct
Port of Spain02:35 → 04:3106:55237 min06:550 min17 Oct
London06:35 → 08:3107:28212 min07:3061 min17 Oct
Durban07:35 → 09:3105:16118 min05:15255 min18 Oct
Dubai09:35 → 11:3106:1834 min06:19230 min18 Oct
Delhi12:05 → 14:0107:230 min07:24228 min18 Oct
Kolkata12:05 → 14:0106:340 min06:34232 min18 Oct
Singapore14:35 → 16:3107:480 min07:48242 min18 Oct
Sydney15:35 → 17:3105:120 min05:11260 min18 Oct
Suva17:35 → 19:3105:370 min05:36251 min18 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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