Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2014

Friday 24 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 20 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 Friday 24 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:36 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1207:0007:4808:3609:2410:12

217 of 217 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 25 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:38 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
Pratipadā ends 06:17:35
06:1407:0207:5008:3809:2610:14

0 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 05:57 on Fri 24 Oct to 06:18 on Sat 25 Oct.

    2014-10-23T21:56:40Z → 2014-10-24T22:17:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:36–10:14 on the 24th, 06:38–10:14 on the 25th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 217 of 217 minutes on the 24th and 0 of 216 on the 25th.

    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 1196 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 2014: Friday 24 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 2014 falls on Friday 24 October. Pratipadā runs from 05:57 on Fri 24 Oct to 06:18 on Sat 25 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2014/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 24 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 24 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 24 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 23rdCoveredSunrise 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:57 → 15:1807:050 min07:06221 min24 Oct
Chicago16:57 → 17:1807:120 min07:14214 min24 Oct
Jersey City17:57 → 18:1807:170 min07:18215 min24 Oct
Port of Spain17:57 → 18:1805:560 min05:56236 min24 Oct
London22:57 → 23:1807:380 min07:40203 min24 Oct
Durban23:57 → 00:1805:100 min05:09261 min24 Oct
Dubai01:57 → 02:1806:210 min06:22227 min24 Oct
Delhi03:27 → 03:4806:270 min06:28225 min24 Oct
Kolkata03:27 → 03:4805:370 min05:37229 min24 Oct
Singapore05:57 → 06:1806:470 min06:47241 min24 Oct
Sydney08:57 → 09:1806:050 min06:0491 min25 Oct
Suva09:57 → 10:1805:330 min05:320 min25 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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