Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1978

Wednesday 1 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 158 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 1 November

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:45 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
06:2107:0907:5708:4509:3310:21

211 of 211 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 2 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:46 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
06:2207:1007:5808:4609:3410:22

0 of 210 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 04:07 on Wed 1 Nov to 02:37 on Thu 2 Nov.

    1978-10-31T20:06:31Z → 1978-11-01T18:36:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:45–10:16 on the 1st, 06:46–10:16 on the 2nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 211 of 211 minutes on the 1st and 0 of 210 on the 2nd.

    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 9494 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1978: Wednesday 1 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1978 falls on Wednesday 1 November. Pratipadā runs from 04:07 on Wed 1 Nov to 02:37 on Thu 2 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1978/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 1 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 1 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 1 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 31stCoveredSunrise 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:07 → 10:3706:120 min06:13216 min1 Nov
Chicago14:07 → 12:3706:220 min06:23207 min1 Nov
Jersey City15:07 → 13:3706:260 min06:27209 min1 Nov
Port of Spain16:07 → 14:3705:570 min05:58235 min1 Nov
London20:07 → 18:3706:520 min06:54193 min1 Nov
Durban22:07 → 20:3705:030 min05:02265 min1 Nov
Dubai00:07 → 22:3706:260 min06:26224 min1 Nov
Delhi01:37 → 00:0706:320 min06:33221 min1 Nov
Kolkata01:37 → 00:0705:400 min05:41226 min1 Nov
Singapore03:37 → 02:0706:160 min06:16241 min1 Nov
Sydney07:07 → 05:3705:570 min05:56198 min1 Nov
Suva08:07 → 06:3705:280 min05:2896 min1 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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