Ruling · Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) · 1946

Tuesday 7 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 534 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 Tuesday 7 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

Midday of Wednesday 8 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

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 02:57 on Tue 7 May to 01:38 on Wed 8 May.

    1946-05-06T18:57:23Z → 1946-05-07T17:38:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 7th, 11:51–12:39 on the 8th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 48 on the 8th.

    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 32015 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gaṅgotpatti, Baoding, 1946: Tuesday 7 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) 1946 falls on Tuesday 7 May. Saptamī runs from 02:57 on Tue 7 May to 01:38 on Wed 8 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1946/gangotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 7 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 7 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 7 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 6thCoveredMadhyāhna 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:57 → 09:3811:2648 min11:260 min6 May
Chicago13:57 → 12:3812:230 min12:2315 min7 May
Jersey City14:57 → 13:3812:290 min12:2948 min7 May
Port of Spain14:57 → 13:3811:390 min11:3948 min7 May
London19:57 → 18:3812:340 min12:3448 min7 May
Durban20:57 → 19:3811:280 min11:2848 min7 May
Dubai22:57 → 21:3811:520 min11:5148 min7 May
Delhi00:27 → 23:0811:540 min11:5448 min7 May
Kolkata00:27 → 23:0811:090 min11:0948 min7 May
Singapore02:27 → 01:0812:070 min12:0748 min7 May
Sydney04:57 → 03:3811:280 min11:2848 min7 May
Suva06:57 → 05:3811:390 min11:3948 min7 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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