Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1992

Saturday 3 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 82 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Friday 2 October

Saptamī is absent from the first muhūrta after sunrise. Not taken.

sunrise 06:15  07:02 one muhūrta on
05:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:2707:51

0 of 47 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 3 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:16  07:03 one muhūrta on
05:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:2807:52

47 of 47 minutes covered

Saptamī presentThe first muhūrta after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 08:24 on Fri 2 Oct to 09:25 on Sat 3 Oct.

    1992-10-02T00:24:08Z → 1992-10-03T01:25:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:15–07:02 on the 2nd, 06:16–07:03 on the 3rd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must hold through the first muhūrta after sunrise. It covers 0 of 47 minutes on the 2nd and 47 of 47 on the 3rd.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 4928 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1992: Saturday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1992 falls on Saturday 3 October. Saptamī runs from 08:24 on Fri 2 Oct to 09:25 on Sat 3 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1992/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 3 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/durga-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
The first muhūrta after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 7 Durga saptami (paraviddha) — covering one muhurta from sunrise” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīSunrise 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:24 → 18:2506:4947 min06:490 min2 Oct
Chicago19:24 → 20:2506:4947 min06:500 min2 Oct
Jersey City20:24 → 21:2506:5447 min06:550 min2 Oct
Port of Spain20:24 → 21:2505:5548 min05:550 min2 Oct
London01:24 → 02:2507:0346 min07:050 min2 Oct
Durban02:24 → 03:2505:3350 min05:320 min2 Oct
Dubai04:24 → 05:2506:1148 min06:120 min2 Oct
Delhi05:54 → 06:5506:1547 min06:1540 min2 Oct
Kolkata05:54 → 06:5505:2922 min05:2948 min3 Oct
Singapore08:24 → 09:2506:510 min06:5148 min3 Oct
Sydney10:24 → 11:2505:310 min05:3050 min3 Oct
Suva12:24 → 13:2505:480 min05:4749 min3 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
durga-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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