Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 2016

Monday 15 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 436 minutes.

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The two middays

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

Midday of Sunday 14 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 15 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

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 20:02 on Sun 14 Aug to 20:19 on Mon 15 Aug.

    2016-08-14T12:02:05Z → 2016-08-15T12:19:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 14th, 11:58–12:46 on the 15th.

    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 14th and 48 of 48 on the 15th.

    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 26136 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2016: Monday 15 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2016 falls on Monday 15 August. Dvādaśī runs from 20:02 on Sun 14 Aug to 20:19 on Mon 15 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 15 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 15 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 15 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 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:02 → 05:1912:3348 min12:330 min14 Aug
Chicago07:02 → 07:1912:3148 min12:310 min14 Aug
Jersey City08:02 → 08:1912:3748 min12:360 min14 Aug
Port of Spain08:02 → 08:1911:4748 min11:460 min14 Aug
London13:02 → 13:1912:4126 min12:4039 min14 Aug
Durban14:02 → 14:1911:370 min11:3648 min15 Aug
Dubai16:02 → 16:1911:590 min11:5948 min15 Aug
Delhi17:32 → 17:4912:010 min12:0148 min15 Aug
Kolkata17:32 → 17:4911:170 min11:1748 min15 Aug
Singapore20:02 → 20:1912:450 min12:4548 min15 Aug
Sydney22:02 → 22:1911:360 min11:3648 min15 Aug
Suva00:02 → 00:1911:470 min11:4748 min15 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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