Tuesday 21 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 15:22 on Tue 21 Mar to 17:58 on Wed 22 Mar.

   1989-03-21T07:21:56Z → 1989-03-22T09:57:56Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:05–18:30 on the 21st, 16:05–18:31 on the 22nd.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 146 of 146 minutes on the 21st and 113 of 146 on the 22nd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2005 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Holikā Dahana, Baoding, 1989: Tuesday 21 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Holikā Dahana 1989 falls on Tuesday 21 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 15:22 on Tue 21 Mar to 17:58 on Wed 22 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna that late afternoon. It also reaches the next late afternoon for 113 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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