Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1955

Sunday 23 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 491 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 Saturday 22 October

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

sunrise 06:34  07:18 one muhūrta on
05:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:4608:10

0 of 44 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 23 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:35  07:18 one muhūrta on
05:4706:1106:3506:5907:2307:4708:11

44 of 44 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 15:29 on Sat 22 Oct to 17:59 on Sun 23 Oct.

    1955-10-22T07:28:36Z → 1955-10-23T09:58:45Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:34–07:18 on the 22nd, 06:35–07:18 on the 23rd.

    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 0 of 44 minutes on the 22nd and 44 of 44 on the 23rd.

    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 29463 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1955: Sunday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1955 falls on Sunday 23 October. Saptamī runs from 15:29 on Sat 22 Oct to 17:59 on Sun 23 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 23 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 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:29 → 01:5906:0444 min06:040 min22 Oct
Chicago02:29 → 04:5907:1143 min07:120 min22 Oct
Jersey City03:29 → 05:5907:1543 min07:160 min22 Oct
Port of Spain03:29 → 05:5905:5647 min05:563 min22 Oct
London07:29 → 09:5906:350 min06:3741 min23 Oct
Durban09:29 → 11:5905:120 min05:1152 min23 Oct
Dubai11:29 → 13:5906:200 min06:2146 min23 Oct
Delhi12:59 → 15:2906:260 min06:2745 min23 Oct
Kolkata12:59 → 15:2905:360 min05:3646 min23 Oct
Singapore14:59 → 17:2906:170 min06:1748 min23 Oct
Sydney17:29 → 19:5905:070 min05:0653 min23 Oct
Suva19:29 → 21:5905:340 min05:3350 min23 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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