Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 1976

Thursday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 61 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 Wednesday 20 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

0 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
17:0817:3217:5618:2018:4419:0819:32

104 of 104 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 23:20 on Wed 20 Oct to 20:16 on Thu 21 Oct.

    1976-10-20T15:19:52Z → 1976-10-21T12:16:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:33–19:17 on the 20th, 17:32–19:16 on the 21st.

    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 104 minutes on the 20th and 104 of 104 on the 21st.

    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 3632 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 1976: Thursday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 1976 falls on Thursday 21 October. Trayodaśī runs from 23:20 on Wed 20 Oct to 20:16 on Thu 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 21 Oct
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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:20 → 05:1618:12103 min18:110 min20 Oct
Chicago10:20 → 07:1618:01105 min17:590 min20 Oct
Jersey City11:20 → 08:1618:08105 min18:070 min20 Oct
Port of Spain11:20 → 08:1617:4697 min17:450 min20 Oct
London16:20 → 13:1617:56109 min17:540 min20 Oct
Durban17:20 → 14:1618:0988 min18:100 min20 Oct
Dubai19:20 → 16:1617:478 min17:460 min20 Oct
Delhi20:50 → 17:4617:460 min17:451 min21 Oct
Kolkata20:50 → 17:4617:070 min17:0640 min21 Oct
Singapore22:50 → 19:4618:220 min18:2185 min21 Oct
Sydney01:20 → 22:1618:120 min18:1387 min21 Oct
Suva03:20 → 00:1618:080 min18:0991 min21 Oct
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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