Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2008

Friday 18 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 378 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Thursday 17 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

05:07 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:02
04:4305:0705:3105:5506:1906:4307:0707:3107:5508:19

0 of 175 minutes covered

Morning of Friday 18 July

Taken. The only morning Pūrṇimā reaches.

05:08 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:02
04:4405:0805:3205:5606:2006:4407:0807:3207:5608:20

175 of 175 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 14:20 on Thu 17 Jul to 15:59 on Fri 18 Jul.

    2008-07-17T06:20:10Z → 2008-07-18T07:59:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:07–08:02 on the 17th, 05:08–08:02 on the 18th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 0 of 175 minutes on the 17th and 175 of 175 on the 18th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 22702 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Baoding, 2008: Friday 18 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vyāsa Pūjā 2008 falls on Friday 18 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 14:20 on Thu 17 Jul to 15:59 on Fri 18 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2008/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 18 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 18 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 18 Jul
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

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The rule, as data

/rules/vyasa-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunrise 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:20 → 00:5905:55170 min05:550 min17 Jul
Chicago01:20 → 02:5905:31178 min05:320 min17 Jul
Jersey City02:20 → 03:5905:40177 min05:410 min17 Jul
Port of Spain02:20 → 03:5905:52152 min05:520 min17 Jul
London07:20 → 08:5905:0457 min05:05192 min18 Jul
Durban08:20 → 09:5906:4934 min06:49125 min18 Jul
Dubai10:20 → 11:5905:390 min05:40162 min18 Jul
Delhi11:50 → 13:2905:340 min05:35165 min18 Jul
Kolkata11:50 → 13:2905:020 min05:02160 min18 Jul
Singapore14:20 → 15:5907:050 min07:05146 min18 Jul
Sydney16:20 → 17:5906:570 min06:57122 min18 Jul
Suva18:20 → 19:5906:380 min06:38134 min18 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vyasa-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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