Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1954

Monday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 330 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Monday 4 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:16  07:03 one muhūrta on
05:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:2807:52

47 of 47 minutes covered

Morning of Tuesday 5 October

Saptamī is absent from the first muhūrta after sunrise. Not taken.

sunrise 06:17  07:04 one muhūrta on
05:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:53

0 of 47 minutes covered

Saptamī presentThe first muhūrta after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 22:52 on Sun 3 Oct to 00:47 on Tue 5 Oct.

    1954-10-03T14:51:32Z → 1954-10-04T16:46:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:16–07:03 on the 4th, 06:17–07:04 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must hold through the first muhūrta after sunrise. It covers 47 of 47 minutes on the 4th and 0 of 47 on the 5th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 19813 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1954: Monday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1954 falls on Monday 4 October. Saptamī runs from 22:52 on Sun 3 Oct to 00:47 on Tue 5 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 4 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/durga-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
The first muhūrta after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 7 Durga saptami (paraviddha) — covering one muhurta from sunrise” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīSunrise 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:52 → 08:4705:490 min05:5047 min4 Oct
Chicago08:52 → 10:4705:490 min05:5146 min4 Oct
Jersey City09:52 → 11:4705:550 min05:5647 min4 Oct
Port of Spain10:52 → 12:4705:550 min05:5548 min4 Oct
London14:52 → 16:4706:040 min06:0546 min4 Oct
Durban16:52 → 18:4705:330 min05:3250 min4 Oct
Dubai18:52 → 20:4706:120 min06:1247 min4 Oct
Delhi20:22 → 22:1706:150 min06:1547 min4 Oct
Kolkata20:22 → 22:1705:290 min05:2948 min4 Oct
Singapore22:22 → 00:1706:210 min06:2148 min4 Oct
Sydney00:52 → 02:4705:310 min05:3050 min4 Oct
Suva02:52 → 04:4705:480 min05:4749 min4 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
durga-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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