Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1961

Thursday 9 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 437 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 8 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:53 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
06:2907:1708:0508:5309:4110:29

0 of 206 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 9 November

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:54 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
06:3007:1808:0608:5409:4210:30

205 of 205 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 17:58 on Wed 8 Nov to 17:36 on Thu 9 Nov.

    1961-11-08T09:58:24Z → 1961-11-09T09:35:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:53–10:19 on the 8th, 06:54–10:19 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 206 minutes on the 8th and 205 of 205 on the 9th.

    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 26201 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1961: Thursday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1961 falls on Thursday 9 November. Pratipadā runs from 17:58 on Wed 8 Nov to 17:36 on Thu 9 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1961/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 9 Nov
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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:58 → 01:3606:19212 min06:200 min8 Nov
Chicago03:58 → 03:3606:32202 min06:330 min8 Nov
Jersey City04:58 → 04:3606:35203 min06:360 min8 Nov
Port of Spain05:58 → 05:3605:59234 min06:000 min8 Nov
London09:58 → 09:3607:0613 min07:08148 min9 Nov
Durban11:58 → 11:3604:570 min04:56269 min9 Nov
Dubai13:58 → 13:3606:310 min06:31221 min9 Nov
Delhi15:28 → 15:0606:380 min06:39217 min9 Nov
Kolkata15:28 → 15:0605:450 min05:46223 min9 Nov
Singapore17:28 → 17:0606:170 min06:17241 min9 Nov
Sydney19:58 → 19:3604:490 min04:49274 min9 Nov
Suva21:58 → 21:3605:250 min05:24257 min9 Nov
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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