Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 1944

Saturday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 523 minutes.

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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 Saturday 14 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

18:42 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:24
18:1818:4219:0619:3019:5420:1820:42

102 of 102 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 15 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:23
18:1618:4019:0419:2819:5220:1620:40

0 of 102 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 07:24 on Sat 14 Oct to 09:58 on Sun 15 Oct.

    1944-10-13T22:24:09Z → 1944-10-15T00:57:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:42–20:24 on the 14th, 18:40–20:23 on the 15th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 102 of 102 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 102 on the 15th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 31351 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 1944: Saturday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 1944 falls on Saturday 14 October. Trayodaśī runs from 07:24 on Sat 14 Oct to 09:58 on Sun 15 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 13thCoveredSunset 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:24 → 17:5818:21101 min18:190 min13 Oct
Chicago17:24 → 19:5818:12103 min18:090 min14 Oct
Jersey City18:24 → 20:5818:1997 min18:160 min14 Oct
Port of Spain19:24 → 21:5818:4962 min18:480 min14 Oct
London23:24 → 01:5818:120 min18:070 min14 Oct
Durban00:24 → 02:5818:040 min18:050 min14 Oct
Dubai02:24 → 04:5817:540 min17:520 min14 Oct
Delhi04:54 → 07:2818:540 min18:520 min14 Oct
Kolkata04:54 → 07:2818:130 min18:110 min14 Oct
Singapore07:24 → 09:5819:530 min19:530 min14 Oct
Sydney08:24 → 10:5818:060 min18:080 min14 Oct
Suva10:24 → 12:5818:060 min18:070 min14 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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