Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1954

Wednesday 27 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 142 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Wednesday 27 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:39 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1507:0307:5108:3909:2710:15

215 of 215 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 28 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:40 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1607:0407:5208:4009:2810:16

0 of 214 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 01:47 on Wed 27 Oct to 04:18 on Thu 28 Oct.

    1954-10-26T17:46:56Z → 1954-10-27T20:18:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:39–10:14 on the 27th, 06:40–10:15 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 215 of 215 minutes on the 27th and 0 of 214 on the 28th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 8508 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1954: Wednesday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1954 falls on Wednesday 27 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:47 on Wed 27 Oct to 04:18 on Thu 28 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 27 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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 26thCoveredSunrise 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:47 → 12:1806:070 min06:08219 min27 Oct
Chicago11:47 → 14:1806:160 min06:17212 min27 Oct
Jersey City12:47 → 15:1806:200 min06:21213 min27 Oct
Port of Spain13:47 → 16:1805:560 min05:56236 min27 Oct
London17:47 → 20:1806:430 min06:45200 min27 Oct
Durban19:47 → 22:1805:080 min05:07262 min27 Oct
Dubai21:47 → 00:1806:230 min06:23226 min27 Oct
Delhi23:17 → 01:4806:290 min06:29224 min27 Oct
Kolkata23:17 → 01:4805:380 min05:38228 min27 Oct
Singapore01:17 → 03:4806:170 min06:17241 min27 Oct
Sydney03:47 → 06:1805:020 min05:01265 min27 Oct
Suva05:47 → 08:1805:310 min05:30237 min27 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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