Ruling · Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) · 2014

Monday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 260 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 Sunday 19 October

Dvādaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

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

0 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 20 October

Taken. The only evening Dvādaśī reaches.

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

104 of 104 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 23:38 on Sun 19 Oct to 01:52 on Tue 21 Oct.

    2014-10-19T15:38:19Z → 2014-10-20T17:52:06Z

  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

    Dvādaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 104 minutes on the 19th and 104 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: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 15604 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Govatsa Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2014: Monday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Govatsa Dvādaśī (Vasu Baras) 2014 falls on Monday 20 October. Dvādaśī runs from 23:38 on Sun 19 Oct to 01:52 on Tue 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2014/govatsa-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 20 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/govatsa-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 12 Govatsa dvadasi (pradosa vyapini). If occurs on two days, it is to be observed on the first day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīSunset 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:38 → 10:5218:14103 min18:120 min19 Oct
Chicago10:38 → 12:5218:03105 min18:010 min19 Oct
Jersey City11:38 → 13:5218:10104 min18:080 min19 Oct
Port of Spain11:38 → 13:5217:4697 min17:460 min19 Oct
London16:38 → 18:5217:59109 min17:5755 min19 Oct
Durban17:38 → 19:5218:0889 min18:0988 min19 Oct
Dubai19:38 → 21:5217:480 min17:47100 min20 Oct
Delhi21:08 → 23:2217:470 min17:46101 min20 Oct
Kolkata21:08 → 23:2217:080 min17:07100 min20 Oct
Singapore23:38 → 01:5218:520 min18:5295 min20 Oct
Sydney02:38 → 04:5219:110 min19:1287 min20 Oct
Suva03:38 → 05:5218:080 min18:0891 min20 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
govatsa-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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