Sunday 19 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 06:42 on Sun 19 Oct to 06:58 on Mon 20 Oct.

   1952-10-18T22:42:15Z → 1952-10-19T22:58:24Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:31–10:12 on the 19th, 06:32–10:13 on the 20th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 210 of 221 minutes on the 19th and 26 of 220 on the 20th.

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

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both forenoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 655 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1952: Sunday 19 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1952 falls on Sunday 19 October. Pratipadā runs from 06:42 on Sun 19 Oct to 06:58 on Mon 20 Oct and covers 210 of 221 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the next forenoon for 26 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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