Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 2007

Saturday 25 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 648 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 24 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 25 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

48 of 48 minutes covered

Dvādaśī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 23:56 on Fri 24 Aug to 23:32 on Sat 25 Aug.

    2007-08-24T15:55:33Z → 2007-08-25T15:32:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 24th, 11:56–12:44 on the 25th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 24th and 48 of 48 on the 25th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 38887 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2007: Saturday 25 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2007 falls on Saturday 25 August. Dvādaśī runs from 23:56 on Fri 24 Aug to 23:32 on Sat 25 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2007/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 25 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 25 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 25 Aug
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/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:56 → 08:3212:3148 min12:310 min24 Aug
Chicago10:56 → 10:3212:2948 min12:280 min24 Aug
Jersey City11:56 → 11:3212:3448 min12:340 min24 Aug
Port of Spain11:56 → 11:3211:4437 min11:440 min24 Aug
London16:56 → 16:3212:380 min12:3848 min25 Aug
Durban17:56 → 17:3211:350 min11:3448 min25 Aug
Dubai19:56 → 19:3211:570 min11:5748 min25 Aug
Delhi21:26 → 21:0211:590 min11:5948 min25 Aug
Kolkata21:26 → 21:0211:150 min11:1548 min25 Aug
Singapore23:56 → 23:3212:430 min12:4348 min25 Aug
Sydney01:56 → 01:3211:340 min11:3448 min25 Aug
Suva03:56 → 03:3211:450 min11:4548 min25 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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