Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1954

Friday 16 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 28 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Thursday 15 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

05:05 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:00
04:4105:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:5308:17

0 of 176 minutes covered

Morning of Friday 16 July

Taken. The only morning Pūrṇimā reaches.

05:05 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:01
04:4105:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:5308:17

175 of 175 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 08:31 on Thu 15 Jul to 08:29 on Fri 16 Jul.

    1954-07-15T00:31:05Z → 1954-07-16T00:29:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:05–08:00 on the 15th, 05:05–08:01 on the 16th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 0 of 176 minutes on the 15th and 175 of 175 on the 16th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 1699 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Baoding, 1954: Friday 16 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vyāsa Pūjā 1954 falls on Friday 16 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 08:31 on Thu 15 Jul to 08:29 on Fri 16 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 16 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 16 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 16 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/vyasa-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
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.

PlacePūrṇimāSunrise 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:31 → 17:2905:53170 min05:530 min15 Jul
Chicago19:31 → 19:2905:29179 min05:290 min15 Jul
Jersey City20:31 → 20:2905:38178 min05:380 min15 Jul
Port of Spain20:31 → 20:2905:51152 min05:520 min15 Jul
London01:31 → 01:2905:00194 min05:020 min15 Jul
Durban02:31 → 02:2906:50125 min06:500 min15 Jul
Dubai04:31 → 04:2905:38163 min05:380 min15 Jul
Delhi06:01 → 05:5905:33137 min05:3326 min15 Jul
Kolkata06:01 → 05:5905:01100 min05:0158 min15 Jul
Singapore08:01 → 07:5906:3560 min06:3584 min15 Jul
Sydney10:31 → 10:2906:590 min06:58121 min16 Jul
Suva12:31 → 12:2906:380 min06:38134 min16 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vyasa-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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