Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2006

Thursday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 552 minutes.

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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 19 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
17:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:1119:35

104 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 20 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

0 of 104 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 05:39 on Thu 19 Oct to 08:21 on Fri 20 Oct.

    2006-10-18T21:38:58Z → 2006-10-20T00:21:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:35–19:18 on the 19th, 17:33–19:17 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 104 of 104 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 104 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 33115 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2006: Thursday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2006 falls on Thursday 19 October. Trayodaśī runs from 05:39 on Thu 19 Oct to 08:21 on Fri 20 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2006/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 18thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:39 → 17:2118:15102 min18:130 min18 Oct
Chicago16:39 → 19:2118:04104 min18:010 min18 Oct
Jersey City17:39 → 20:2118:11104 min18:080 min19 Oct
Port of Spain17:39 → 20:2117:4797 min17:460 min19 Oct
London22:39 → 01:2118:010 min17:570 min19 Oct
Durban23:39 → 02:2118:070 min18:090 min19 Oct
Dubai01:39 → 04:2117:490 min17:470 min19 Oct
Delhi03:09 → 05:5117:480 min17:470 min19 Oct
Kolkata03:09 → 05:5117:090 min17:070 min19 Oct
Singapore05:39 → 08:2118:520 min18:520 min19 Oct
Sydney07:39 → 10:2118:100 min18:120 min19 Oct
Suva09:39 → 12:2118:080 min18:080 min19 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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