Ruling · Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata · 2000

Friday 16 June

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 434 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 Thursday 15 June

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:58
19:2119:4520:0920:3320:5721:2121:45

0 of 73 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 16 June

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:58
19:2119:4520:0920:3320:5721:2121:45

73 of 73 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 04:12 on Fri 16 Jun to 06:27 on Sat 17 Jun.

    2000-06-15T20:12:08Z → 2000-06-16T22:27:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:45–20:58 on the 15th, 19:45–20:58 on the 16th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 73 minutes on the 15th and 73 of 73 on the 16th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 26061 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata, Baoding, 2000: Friday 16 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata 2000 falls on Friday 16 June. Pūrṇimā runs from 04:12 on Fri 16 Jun to 06:27 on Sat 17 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2000/vata-savitri-vrata · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 16 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 16 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 16 Jun
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/vata-savitri-vrata · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Jyeṣṭha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Vata-savitri vrata (Deccan) (pradosavyapini, purvaviddha), Snanayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 15thCoveredSunset 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:12 → 15:2720:0677 min20:060 min15 Jun
Chicago15:12 → 17:2720:2770 min20:280 min15 Jun
Jersey City16:12 → 18:2720:2971 min20:290 min15 Jun
Port of Spain16:12 → 18:2718:2990 min18:290 min15 Jun
London21:12 → 23:2721:1959 min21:2059 min15 Jun
Durban22:12 → 00:2717:030 min17:03110 min16 Jun
Dubai00:12 → 02:2719:100 min19:1083 min16 Jun
Delhi01:42 → 03:5719:200 min19:2080 min16 Jun
Kolkata01:42 → 03:5718:220 min18:2284 min16 Jun
Singapore04:12 → 06:2719:110 min19:1195 min16 Jun
Sydney06:12 → 08:2716:530 min16:53113 min16 Jun
Suva08:12 → 10:2717:380 min17:38104 min16 Jun
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vata-savitri-vrata@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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