Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1993

Saturday 3 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Pūrṇimā reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day and the rule does not say what then. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Saturday 3 July

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither morning; this is the day it falls on.

04:58 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:55
04:3404:5805:2205:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:4608:10

0 of 178 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 4 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 167 of 178 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

04:58 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:56
Pūrṇimā ends 07:45:05
04:3404:5805:2205:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:4608:10

167 of 178 minutes covered, the first 167

Pūrṇimā presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, 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

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 04:58–07:55 on the 3rd, 04:58–07:56 on the 4th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 0 of 178 minutes on the 3rd and 167 of 178 on the 4th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither morning qualifies. The day the tithi falls on is taken.

    priority: paraviddha → tithi-day · margin 642 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Baoding, 1993: Saturday 3 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vyāsa Pūjā 1993 falls on Saturday 3 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 08:10 on Sat 3 Jul to 07:45 on Sun 4 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1993/vyasa-puja · 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/vyasa-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
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.

PlacePūrṇimāSunrise 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:10 → 16:4505:46172 min05:470 min3 Jul
Chicago19:10 → 18:4505:21182 min05:210 min3 Jul
Jersey City20:10 → 19:4505:30180 min05:310 min3 Jul
Port of Spain20:10 → 19:4505:48153 min05:490 min3 Jul
London01:10 → 00:4504:49198 min04:500 min3 Jul
Durban02:10 → 01:4506:52123 min06:520 min3 Jul
Dubai04:10 → 03:4505:33164 min05:340 min3 Jul
Delhi05:40 → 05:1505:28154 min05:280 min3 Jul
Kolkata05:40 → 05:1504:56118 min04:5718 min3 Jul
Singapore08:10 → 07:4507:0379 min07:0342 min3 Jul
Sydney10:10 → 09:4507:010 min07:01119 min4 Jul
Suva12:10 → 11:4506:390 min06:39133 min4 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vyasa-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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