Ruling · Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) · 1944

Saturday 29 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 639 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

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

Midday of Friday 28 April

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:52  13:40 madhyāhna ends
12:0412:2812:5213:1613:4014:0414:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 29 April

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:52  13:40 madhyāhna ends
12:0412:2812:5213:1613:4014:0414:28

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 00:19 on Sat 29 Apr to 02:02 on Sun 30 Apr.

    1944-04-28T15:19:12Z → 1944-04-29T17:02:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:52–13:40 on the 28th, 12:52–13:40 on the 29th.

    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 28th and 48 of 48 on the 29th.

    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 38354 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gaṅgotpatti, Baoding, 1944: Saturday 29 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) 1944 falls on Saturday 29 April. Saptamī runs from 00:19 on Sat 29 Apr to 02:02 on Sun 30 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 Apr
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 28thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:19 → 10:0212:2748 min12:260 min28 Apr
Chicago10:19 → 12:0212:2448 min12:240 min28 Apr
Jersey City11:19 → 13:0212:3048 min12:3032 min28 Apr
Port of Spain12:19 → 14:0212:4048 min12:3948 min28 Apr
London17:19 → 19:0213:350 min13:3448 min29 Apr
Durban17:19 → 19:0211:290 min11:2948 min29 Apr
Dubai19:19 → 21:0211:520 min11:5248 min29 Apr
Delhi21:49 → 23:3212:550 min12:5548 min29 Apr
Kolkata21:49 → 23:3212:100 min12:1048 min29 Apr
Singapore00:19 → 02:0213:380 min13:3848 min29 Apr
Sydney01:19 → 03:0211:280 min11:2848 min29 Apr
Suva03:19 → 05:0211:400 min11:4048 min29 Apr
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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