Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 1993

Saturday 3 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 645 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Friday 2 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

0 of 73 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 3 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

74 of 74 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 08:10 on Sat 3 Jul to 07:45 on Sun 4 Jul.

    1993-07-03T00:10:09Z → 1993-07-03T23:45:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:47–21:00 on the 2nd, 19:47–21:00 on the 3rd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 73 minutes on the 2nd and 74 of 74 on the 3rd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 38689 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 1993: Saturday 3 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 1993 falls on Saturday 3 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 08:10 on Sat 3 Jul to 07:45 on Sun 4 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1993/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 3 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 3 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 3 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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 3rdCoveredSunset 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:10 → 16:4520:080 min20:080 min2 Jul
Chicago19:10 → 18:4520:290 min20:280 min2 Jul
Jersey City20:10 → 19:4520:310 min20:300 min2 Jul
Port of Spain20:10 → 19:4518:3273 min18:320 min3 Jul
London01:10 → 00:4521:2060 min21:190 min3 Jul
Durban02:10 → 01:4517:08110 min17:080 min3 Jul
Dubai04:10 → 03:4519:1283 min19:120 min3 Jul
Delhi05:40 → 05:1519:2381 min19:230 min3 Jul
Kolkata05:40 → 05:1518:2584 min18:250 min3 Jul
Singapore08:10 → 07:4519:1495 min19:150 min3 Jul
Sydney10:10 → 09:4516:58112 min16:580 min3 Jul
Suva12:10 → 11:4517:42104 min17:420 min3 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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