Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1956

Thursday 11 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 257 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 Wednesday 10 October

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

sunrise 06:22  07:08 one muhūrta on
05:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

0 of 46 minutes covered

Morning of Thursday 11 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:23  07:09 one muhūrta on
05:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

46 of 46 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 11:26 on Wed 10 Oct to 13:33 on Thu 11 Oct.

    1956-10-10T03:25:35Z → 1956-10-11T05:32:52Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:22–07:08 on the 10th, 06:23–07:09 on the 11th.

    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 46 minutes on the 10th and 46 of 46 on the 11th.

    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 15449 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1956: Thursday 11 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1956 falls on Thursday 11 October. Saptamī runs from 11:26 on Wed 10 Oct to 13:33 on Thu 11 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 11 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 11 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 11 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 10thCoveredSunrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:26 → 21:3305:5546 min05:550 min10 Oct
Chicago22:26 → 00:3306:5845 min06:590 min10 Oct
Jersey City23:26 → 01:3307:0245 min07:040 min10 Oct
Port of Spain23:26 → 01:3305:5548 min05:550 min10 Oct
London03:26 → 05:3306:1644 min06:180 min10 Oct
Durban05:26 → 07:3305:2449 min05:2351 min11 Oct
Dubai07:26 → 09:3306:150 min06:1547 min11 Oct
Delhi08:56 → 11:0306:190 min06:2046 min11 Oct
Kolkata08:56 → 11:0305:310 min05:3247 min11 Oct
Singapore10:56 → 13:0306:190 min06:1948 min11 Oct
Sydney13:26 → 15:3305:210 min05:2051 min11 Oct
Suva15:26 → 17:3305:420 min05:4150 min11 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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