Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 1993

Friday 30 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 360 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 29 July

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 30 July

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:00  12:48 madhyāhna ends
11:1211:3612:0012:2412:4813:1213:36

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 19:08 on Thu 29 Jul to 18:48 on Fri 30 Jul.

    1993-07-29T11:08:01Z → 1993-07-30T10:48:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:00–12:48 on the 29th, 12:00–12:48 on the 30th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 21611 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 1993: Friday 30 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 1993 falls on Friday 30 July. Dvādaśī runs from 19:08 on Thu 29 Jul to 18:48 on Fri 30 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1993/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 30 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 30 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 30 Jul
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/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:08 → 03:4812:3548 min12:350 min29 Jul
Chicago06:08 → 05:4812:3348 min12:330 min29 Jul
Jersey City07:08 → 06:4812:3848 min12:380 min29 Jul
Port of Spain07:08 → 06:4811:4848 min11:480 min29 Jul
London12:08 → 11:4812:4248 min12:420 min29 Jul
Durban13:08 → 12:4811:380 min11:3848 min30 Jul
Dubai15:08 → 14:4812:010 min12:0148 min30 Jul
Delhi16:38 → 16:1812:030 min12:0348 min30 Jul
Kolkata16:38 → 16:1811:190 min11:1948 min30 Jul
Singapore19:08 → 18:4812:470 min12:4748 min30 Jul
Sydney21:08 → 20:4811:380 min11:3848 min30 Jul
Suva23:08 → 22:4811:490 min11:4948 min30 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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