Ruling · Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vaiśākhī Pūrṇimā) · 1963

Wednesday 8 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 623 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 7 May

Pūrṇimā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 8 May

Taken. The only midday Pūrṇimā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 23:02 on Tue 7 May to 01:23 on Thu 9 May.

    1963-05-07T15:01:42Z → 1963-05-08T17:23:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 7th, 11:51–12:39 on the 8th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 7th and 48 of 48 on the 8th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 37361 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Buddha Pūrṇimā, Baoding, 1963: Wednesday 8 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Buddha Pūrṇimā (Vesak) 1963 falls on Wednesday 8 May. Pūrṇimā runs from 23:02 on Tue 7 May to 01:23 on Thu 9 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1963/buddha-purnima · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 8 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 8 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 8 May
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/buddha-purnima · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Sampat gauri vrata (paraviddha), Phuladola (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Gandhesvari puja (Bengal) (purvaviddha), Buddha purnima, Vaisakhi purnima.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāMadhyāhna 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:02 → 10:2312:2648 min12:260 min7 May
Chicago10:02 → 12:2312:2348 min12:230 min7 May
Jersey City11:02 → 13:2312:2948 min12:2948 min7 May
Port of Spain11:02 → 13:2311:3948 min11:3948 min7 May
London16:02 → 18:2312:340 min12:3448 min8 May
Durban17:02 → 19:2311:280 min11:2848 min8 May
Dubai19:02 → 21:2311:510 min11:5148 min8 May
Delhi20:32 → 22:5311:540 min11:5448 min8 May
Kolkata20:32 → 22:5311:090 min11:0948 min8 May
Singapore22:32 → 00:5312:070 min12:0748 min8 May
Sydney01:02 → 03:2311:280 min11:2848 min8 May
Suva03:02 → 05:2311:390 min11:3948 min8 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
buddha-purnima@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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