Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1960

Friday 8 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 397 minutes.

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Thursday 7 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

0 of 74 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 8 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

74 of 74 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 07:33 on Fri 8 Jul to 03:37 on Sat 9 Jul.

    1960-07-07T23:32:51Z → 1960-07-08T19:36:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:46–21:00 on the 7th, 19:46–21:00 on the 8th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 74 minutes on the 7th and 74 of 74 on the 8th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 23820 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1960: Friday 8 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1960 falls on Friday 8 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 07:33 on Fri 8 Jul to 03:37 on Sat 9 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 8 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 8 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 8 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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
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.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 7thCoveredSunset 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:33 → 12:3720:0778 min20:070 min7 Jul
Chicago18:33 → 14:3720:2871 min20:270 min7 Jul
Jersey City19:33 → 15:3720:3072 min20:290 min7 Jul
Port of Spain19:33 → 15:3718:3230 min18:320 min7 Jul
London00:33 → 20:3721:180 min21:170 min7 Jul
Durban01:33 → 21:3717:100 min17:10110 min8 Jul
Dubai03:33 → 23:3719:120 min19:1283 min8 Jul
Delhi05:03 → 01:0719:220 min19:2281 min8 Jul
Kolkata05:03 → 01:0718:250 min18:2584 min8 Jul
Singapore07:03 → 03:0718:450 min18:4595 min8 Jul
Sydney09:33 → 05:3716:590 min17:00112 min8 Jul
Suva11:33 → 07:3717:430 min17:44103 min8 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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