Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1948

Tuesday 20 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 548 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Tuesday 20 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

20:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:56
20:1620:4021:0421:2821:5222:1622:40

76 of 76 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 21 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:39 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:55
20:1520:3921:0321:2721:5122:1522:39

0 of 76 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 09:50 on Tue 20 Jul to 11:31 on Wed 21 Jul.

    1948-07-20T00:50:06Z → 1948-07-21T02:31:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:40–21:56 on the 20th, 20:39–21:55 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 76 of 76 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 76 on the 21st.

    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 32872 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1948: Tuesday 20 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1948 falls on Tuesday 20 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 09:50 on Tue 20 Jul to 11:31 on Wed 21 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 20 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 20 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 20 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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:50 → 19:3120:020 min20:010 min19 Jul
Chicago19:50 → 21:3120:2071 min20:190 min19 Jul
Jersey City20:50 → 22:3120:2375 min20:220 min20 Jul
Port of Spain20:50 → 22:3118:3291 min18:320 min20 Jul
London01:50 → 03:3121:0664 min21:040 min20 Jul
Durban02:50 → 04:3117:16108 min17:170 min20 Jul
Dubai04:50 → 06:3119:0984 min19:090 min20 Jul
Delhi06:20 → 08:0119:1982 min19:180 min20 Jul
Kolkata06:20 → 08:0118:2285 min18:220 min20 Jul
Singapore08:20 → 10:0118:4695 min18:460 min20 Jul
Sydney10:50 → 12:3117:07111 min17:070 min20 Jul
Suva12:50 → 14:3117:48103 min17:480 min20 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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