Ruling · Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) · 1995

Friday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 24 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 20 October

Taken. The only evening Dvādaśī reaches.

17:34 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
17:1017:3417:5818:2218:4619:1019:34

104 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 21 October

Dvādaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0817:3217:5618:2018:4419:0819:32

0 of 104 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 17:09 on Fri 20 Oct to 16:59 on Sat 21 Oct.

    1995-10-20T09:09:15Z → 1995-10-21T08:59:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:34–19:18 on the 20th, 17:32–19:17 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 104 of 104 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 104 on the 21st.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 1466 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Govatsa Dvādaśī, Baoding, 1995: Friday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) 1995 falls on Friday 20 October. Dvādaśī runs from 17:09 on Fri 20 Oct to 16:59 on Sat 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/govatsa-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 20 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/govatsa-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 12 Govatsa dvadasi (pradosa vyapini). If occurs on two days, it is to be observed on the first day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīSunset 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:09 → 01:5918:13103 min18:120 min20 Oct
Chicago04:09 → 03:5918:02105 min18:000 min20 Oct
Jersey City05:09 → 04:5918:09105 min18:070 min20 Oct
Port of Spain05:09 → 04:5917:4697 min17:460 min20 Oct
London10:09 → 09:5917:58109 min17:550 min20 Oct
Durban11:09 → 10:5918:0889 min18:090 min20 Oct
Dubai13:09 → 12:5917:48100 min17:470 min20 Oct
Delhi14:39 → 14:2917:47101 min17:460 min20 Oct
Kolkata14:39 → 14:2917:08100 min17:070 min20 Oct
Singapore17:09 → 16:5918:5295 min18:520 min20 Oct
Sydney19:09 → 18:5918:1230 min18:1347 min20 Oct
Suva21:09 → 20:5918:080 min18:0891 min21 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
govatsa-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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