Ruling · Kajjalī Tṛtīyā (Kajari Teej) · 1963

Thursday 8 August

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 3 min 49 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Wednesday 7 August

Tṛtīyā is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Thursday 8 August

Taken. The only midday Tṛtīyā reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
Tṛtīyā ends 12:43:43
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

44 of 48 minutes covered, the first 44

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 14:41 on Wed 7 Aug to 12:44 on Thu 8 Aug.

    1963-08-07T06:41:26Z → 1963-08-08T04:43:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 7th, 12:00–12:48 on the 8th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 7th and 44 of 48 on the 8th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 229 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Kajjalī Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 1963: Thursday 8 August.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Kajjalī Tṛtīyā (Kajari Teej) 1963 falls on Thursday 8 August. Tṛtīyā runs from 14:41 on Wed 7 Aug to 12:44 on Thu 8 Aug and covers 44 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 3 min 49 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1963/kajjali-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 8 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 8 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 8 Aug
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/kajjali-tritiya · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Tṛtīyā
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 3 Kajjali trtiya, (paraviddha), Angaveta trtiya (Orissa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāMadhyāhna 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:41 → 21:4412:3448 min12:340 min7 Aug
Chicago01:41 → 23:4412:3248 min12:320 min7 Aug
Jersey City02:41 → 00:4412:3848 min12:380 min7 Aug
Port of Spain02:41 → 00:4411:4848 min11:480 min7 Aug
London07:41 → 05:4412:4248 min12:420 min7 Aug
Durban08:41 → 06:4411:3848 min11:380 min7 Aug
Dubai10:41 → 08:4412:0048 min12:000 min7 Aug
Delhi12:11 → 10:1412:0339 min12:030 min7 Aug
Kolkata12:11 → 10:1411:180 min11:180 min8 Aug
Singapore14:11 → 12:1412:160 min12:160 min8 Aug
Sydney16:41 → 14:4411:370 min11:3748 min8 Aug
Suva18:41 → 16:4411:480 min11:4848 min8 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
kajjali-tritiya@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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