Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2008

Sunday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 579 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 Saturday 25 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:26 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:12
17:0217:2617:5018:1418:3819:0219:26

0 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 26 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:25 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:11
17:0117:2517:4918:1318:3719:0119:25

106 of 106 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 04:51 on Sun 26 Oct to 05:15 on Mon 27 Oct.

    2008-10-25T20:50:36Z → 2008-10-26T21:15:23Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:26–19:12 on the 25th, 17:25–19:11 on the 26th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 106 minutes on the 25th and 106 of 106 on the 26th.

    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 34736 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2008: Sunday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2008 falls on Sunday 26 October. Trayodaśī runs from 04:51 on Sun 26 Oct to 05:15 on Mon 27 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2008/yama-dipadana · 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/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 25thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:51 → 14:1518:06104 min18:050 min25 Oct
Chicago15:51 → 16:1517:53107 min17:520 min25 Oct
Jersey City16:51 → 17:1518:01107 min17:590 min25 Oct
Port of Spain16:51 → 17:1517:4498 min17:430 min25 Oct
London21:51 → 21:1517:460 min16:44112 min26 Oct
Durban22:51 → 23:1518:130 min18:1387 min26 Oct
Dubai00:51 → 01:1517:430 min17:42102 min26 Oct
Delhi02:21 → 02:4517:410 min17:40103 min26 Oct
Kolkata02:21 → 02:4517:030 min17:03101 min26 Oct
Singapore04:51 → 05:1518:510 min18:5195 min26 Oct
Sydney07:51 → 08:1519:170 min19:1886 min26 Oct
Suva08:51 → 09:1518:100 min18:1091 min26 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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