Ruling · Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) · 1990

Monday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 78 minutes.

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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 Sunday 14 October

Dvādaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:42 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:24
17:1817:4218:0618:3018:5419:1819:42

0 of 102 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 15 October

Taken. The only evening Dvādaśī reaches.

17:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:23
17:1617:4018:0418:2818:5219:1619:40

102 of 102 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 20:42 on Sun 14 Oct to 20:51 on Mon 15 Oct.

    1990-10-14T12:42:15Z → 1990-10-15T12:51:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:42–19:24 on the 14th, 17:40–19:23 on the 15th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 102 minutes on the 14th and 102 of 102 on the 15th.

    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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 4699 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Govatsa Dvādaśī, Baoding, 1990: Monday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) 1990 falls on Monday 15 October. Dvādaśī runs from 20:42 on Sun 14 Oct to 20:51 on Mon 15 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1990/govatsa-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 15 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/govatsa-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 12 Govatsa dvadasi (pradosa vyapini). If occurs on two days, it is to be observed on the first day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīSunset 14thCoveredSunset 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:42 → 05:5118:20101 min18:190 min14 Oct
Chicago07:42 → 07:5118:11103 min18:090 min14 Oct
Jersey City08:42 → 08:5118:18103 min18:160 min14 Oct
Port of Spain08:42 → 08:5117:4997 min17:480 min14 Oct
London13:42 → 13:5118:10106 min18:080 min14 Oct
Durban14:42 → 14:5118:0590 min18:050 min14 Oct
Dubai16:42 → 16:5117:5399 min17:520 min14 Oct
Delhi18:12 → 18:2117:5380 min17:5230 min14 Oct
Kolkata18:12 → 18:2117:1239 min17:1270 min14 Oct
Singapore20:42 → 20:5118:530 min18:5395 min15 Oct
Sydney22:42 → 22:5118:070 min18:0889 min15 Oct
Suva00:42 → 00:5118:060 min18:0792 min15 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
govatsa-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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