Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 1972

Friday 3 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 486 minutes.

Decide it for

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 2 November

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:17 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:05
16:5317:1717:4118:0518:2918:5319:17

0 of 108 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 3 November

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:16 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:04
16:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:5219:16

108 of 108 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 03:11 on Fri 3 Nov to 04:58 on Sat 4 Nov.

    1972-11-02T19:10:52Z → 1972-11-03T20:57:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:17–19:05 on the 2nd, 17:16–19:04 on the 3rd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 108 minutes on the 2nd and 108 of 108 on the 3rd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 29166 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 1972: Friday 3 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 1972 falls on Friday 3 November. Trayodaśī runs from 03:11 on Fri 3 Nov to 04:58 on Sat 4 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1972/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 3 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 3 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 3 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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 2ndCoveredSunset 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:11 → 12:5816:59106 min16:580 min2 Nov
Chicago13:11 → 14:5816:43110 min16:420 min2 Nov
Jersey City14:11 → 15:5816:51109 min16:500 min2 Nov
Port of Spain15:11 → 16:5817:4198 min17:410 min2 Nov
London19:11 → 20:5816:310 min16:29116 min3 Nov
Durban21:11 → 22:5818:180 min18:1985 min3 Nov
Dubai23:11 → 00:5817:370 min17:37103 min3 Nov
Delhi00:41 → 02:2817:350 min17:34104 min3 Nov
Kolkata00:41 → 02:2816:580 min16:58102 min3 Nov
Singapore02:41 → 04:2818:200 min18:2096 min3 Nov
Sydney06:11 → 07:5819:240 min19:2584 min3 Nov
Suva07:11 → 08:5818:130 min18:1490 min3 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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