Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 1996

Saturday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 476 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

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

Morning of Friday 18 October

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

sunrise 06:31  07:15 one muhūrta on
05:4306:0706:3106:5507:1907:4308:07

0 of 44 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 19 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:32  07:16 one muhūrta on
05:4406:0806:3206:5607:2007:4408:08

44 of 44 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 17:08 on Fri 18 Oct to 15:11 on Sat 19 Oct.

    1996-10-18T09:07:40Z → 1996-10-19T07:11:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:31–07:15 on the 18th, 06:32–07:16 on the 19th.

    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 44 minutes on the 18th and 44 of 44 on the 19th.

    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 28534 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 1996: Saturday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 1996 falls on Saturday 19 October. Saptamī runs from 17:08 on Fri 18 Oct to 15:11 on Sat 19 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1996/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:08 → 00:1107:0145 min07:020 min18 Oct
Chicago04:08 → 02:1107:0744 min07:080 min18 Oct
Jersey City05:08 → 03:1107:1144 min07:130 min18 Oct
Port of Spain05:08 → 03:1105:5547 min05:560 min18 Oct
London10:08 → 08:1107:300 min07:3239 min18 Oct
Durban11:08 → 09:1105:150 min05:1452 min19 Oct
Dubai13:08 → 11:1106:190 min06:1946 min19 Oct
Delhi14:38 → 12:4106:240 min06:2545 min19 Oct
Kolkata14:38 → 12:4105:340 min05:3546 min19 Oct
Singapore17:08 → 15:1106:480 min06:4748 min19 Oct
Sydney19:08 → 17:1105:110 min05:0952 min19 Oct
Suva21:08 → 19:1105:360 min05:3550 min19 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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