Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2003

Sunday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 423 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 Saturday 25 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:37 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1307:0107:4908:3709:2510:13

0 of 217 minutes covered

Forenoon of Sunday 26 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:38 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1407:0207:5008:3809:2610:14

216 of 216 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 20:50 on Sat 25 Oct to 17:17 on Sun 26 Oct.

    2003-10-25T12:50:18Z → 2003-10-26T09:17:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:37–10:14 on the 25th, 06:38–10:14 on the 26th.

    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 217 minutes on the 25th and 216 of 216 on the 26th.

    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 25405 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 2003: Sunday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 2003 falls on Sunday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 20:50 on Sat 25 Oct to 17:17 on Sun 26 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2003/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 26 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/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 25thCoveredSunrise 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:50 → 01:1707:06220 min06:070 min25 Oct
Chicago07:50 → 03:1707:14177 min06:160 min25 Oct
Jersey City08:50 → 04:1707:18123 min06:200 min25 Oct
Port of Spain08:50 → 05:1705:5662 min05:560 min25 Oct
London13:50 → 09:1707:410 min06:43154 min26 Oct
Durban14:50 → 11:1705:080 min05:08262 min26 Oct
Dubai16:50 → 13:1706:220 min06:23227 min26 Oct
Delhi18:20 → 14:4706:280 min06:29224 min26 Oct
Kolkata18:20 → 14:4705:370 min05:38228 min26 Oct
Singapore20:50 → 17:1706:470 min06:47241 min26 Oct
Sydney22:50 → 20:1705:030 min06:02265 min26 Oct
Suva00:50 → 21:1705:310 min05:31253 min26 Oct
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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