Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2016

Monday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 156 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 Monday 31 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:44 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
06:2007:0807:5608:4409:3210:20

211 of 211 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 1 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:46 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
06:2207:1007:5808:4609:3410:22

0 of 211 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 01:38 on Mon 31 Oct to 04:10 on Tue 1 Nov.

    2016-10-30T17:38:10Z → 2016-10-31T20:09:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:44–10:16 on the 31st, 06:46–10:16 on the 1st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 211 of 211 minutes on the 31st and 0 of 211 on the 1st.

    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 9336 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 2016: Monday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 2016 falls on Monday 31 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:38 on Mon 31 Oct to 04:10 on Tue 1 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 31 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 30thCoveredSunrise 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:38 → 13:1007:1210 min07:12216 min31 Oct
Chicago12:38 → 15:1007:210 min07:23207 min31 Oct
Jersey City13:38 → 16:1007:250 min07:26209 min31 Oct
Port of Spain13:38 → 16:1005:570 min05:57235 min31 Oct
London17:38 → 20:1006:510 min06:53194 min31 Oct
Durban19:38 → 22:1005:030 min05:02265 min31 Oct
Dubai21:38 → 00:1006:250 min06:26224 min31 Oct
Delhi23:08 → 01:4006:320 min06:33221 min31 Oct
Kolkata23:08 → 01:4005:400 min05:41226 min31 Oct
Singapore01:38 → 04:1006:460 min06:46241 min31 Oct
Sydney04:38 → 07:1005:570 min05:56269 min31 Oct
Suva05:38 → 08:1005:280 min05:28244 min31 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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