Ruling · Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata · 2002

Monday 24 June

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 522 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 Sunday 23 June

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

0 of 73 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 24 June

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:00
19:2319:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:47

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 06:52 on Mon 24 Jun to 05:42 on Tue 25 Jun.

    2002-06-23T22:52:20Z → 2002-06-24T21:42:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:47–21:00 on the 23rd, 19:47–21:00 on the 24th.

    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 23rd and 73 of 73 on the 24th.

    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 31349 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata, Baoding, 2002: Monday 24 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata 2002 falls on Monday 24 June. Pūrṇimā runs from 06:52 on Mon 24 Jun to 05:42 on Tue 25 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2002/vata-savitri-vrata · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 24 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 24 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 24 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 23rdCoveredSunset 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:52 → 14:4220:0877 min20:080 min23 Jun
Chicago17:52 → 16:4220:2970 min20:290 min23 Jun
Jersey City18:52 → 17:4220:3171 min20:310 min23 Jun
Port of Spain18:52 → 17:4218:3168 min18:310 min23 Jun
London23:52 → 22:4221:210 min21:2159 min24 Jun
Durban00:52 → 23:4217:050 min17:05110 min24 Jun
Dubai02:52 → 01:4219:120 min19:1283 min24 Jun
Delhi04:22 → 03:1219:220 min19:2280 min24 Jun
Kolkata04:22 → 03:1218:240 min18:2484 min24 Jun
Singapore06:52 → 05:4219:120 min19:1395 min24 Jun
Sydney08:52 → 07:4216:540 min16:54113 min24 Jun
Suva10:52 → 09:4217:390 min17:40104 min24 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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