Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 1996

Tuesday 12 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 35 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Monday 11 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:56 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:20
06:3207:2008:0808:5609:4410:32

0 of 204 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 12 November

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:58 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:21
06:3407:2208:1008:5809:4610:34

203 of 203 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 12:16 on Mon 11 Nov to 10:55 on Tue 12 Nov.

    1996-11-11T04:16:08Z → 1996-11-12T02:55:07Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:56–10:20 on the 11th, 06:58–10:21 on the 12th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 204 minutes on the 11th and 203 of 203 on the 12th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2072 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 1996: Tuesday 12 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 1996 falls on Tuesday 12 November. Pratipadā runs from 12:16 on Mon 11 Nov to 10:55 on Tue 12 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1996/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 12 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 12 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 12 Nov
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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 11thCoveredSunrise 12thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:16 → 18:5506:23210 min06:230 min11 Nov
Chicago22:16 → 20:5506:36199 min06:370 min11 Nov
Jersey City23:16 → 21:5506:39201 min06:400 min11 Nov
Port of Spain00:16 → 22:5506:00233 min06:010 min11 Nov
London04:16 → 02:5507:12181 min07:140 min11 Nov
Durban06:16 → 04:5504:54189 min04:541 min11 Nov
Dubai08:16 → 06:5506:33117 min06:3421 min11 Nov
Delhi09:46 → 08:2506:4131 min06:42103 min12 Nov
Kolkata09:46 → 08:2505:470 min05:48158 min12 Nov
Singapore12:16 → 10:5506:470 min06:47241 min12 Nov
Sydney15:16 → 13:5505:470 min05:46276 min12 Nov
Suva16:16 → 14:5505:230 min05:23258 min12 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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