Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1995

Sunday 1 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 282 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two mornings

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

Morning of Saturday 30 September

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

sunrise 06:13  07:00 one muhūrta on
05:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:2507:49

0 of 47 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 1 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:13  07:01 one muhūrta on
05:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:2507:49

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 13:57 on Sat 30 Sep to 11:42 on Sun 1 Oct.

    1995-09-30T05:56:55Z → 1995-10-01T03:42:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:13–07:00 on the 30th, 06:13–07:01 on the 1st.

    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 30th and 47 of 47 on the 1st.

    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 16895 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1995: Sunday 1 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1995 falls on Sunday 1 October. Saptamī runs from 13:57 on Sat 30 Sep to 11:42 on Sun 1 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 1 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 1 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 1 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 30thCoveredSunrise 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:57 → 20:4206:4747 min06:470 min30 Sep
Chicago00:57 → 22:4206:4647 min06:470 min30 Sep
Jersey City01:57 → 23:4206:5247 min06:530 min30 Sep
Port of Spain01:57 → 23:4205:5548 min05:550 min30 Sep
London06:57 → 04:4206:5947 min07:010 min30 Sep
Durban07:57 → 05:4205:370 min05:357 min30 Sep
Dubai09:57 → 07:4206:100 min06:1148 min1 Oct
Delhi11:27 → 09:1206:130 min06:1448 min1 Oct
Kolkata11:27 → 09:1205:280 min05:2848 min1 Oct
Singapore13:57 → 11:4206:520 min06:5248 min1 Oct
Sydney15:57 → 13:4205:350 min05:3450 min1 Oct
Suva17:57 → 15:4205:500 min05:4949 min1 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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