Ruling · Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata · 2016

Sunday 19 June

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 44 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 June

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:59
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

73 of 73 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 20 June

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:59
19:2219:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:46

0 of 73 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 18:01 on Sun 19 Jun to 19:02 on Mon 20 Jun.

    2016-06-19T10:01:15Z → 2016-06-20T11:02:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:46–20:59 on the 19th, 19:46–20:59 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 73 of 73 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 73 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 2639 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata, Baoding, 2016: Sunday 19 June.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata 2016 falls on Sunday 19 June. Pūrṇimā runs from 18:01 on Sun 19 Jun to 19:02 on Mon 20 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/vata-savitri-vrata · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Jun
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Jun
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 Jun
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/vata-savitri-vrata · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Jyeṣṭha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Vata-savitri vrata (Deccan) (pradosavyapini, purvaviddha), Snanayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:01 → 04:0220:0777 min20:070 min19 Jun
Chicago05:01 → 06:0220:2970 min20:290 min19 Jun
Jersey City06:01 → 07:0220:3071 min20:310 min19 Jun
Port of Spain06:01 → 07:0218:3090 min18:300 min19 Jun
London11:01 → 12:0221:2159 min21:210 min19 Jun
Durban12:01 → 13:0217:04110 min17:040 min19 Jun
Dubai14:01 → 15:0219:1183 min19:110 min19 Jun
Delhi15:31 → 16:3219:2180 min19:220 min19 Jun
Kolkata15:31 → 16:3218:2384 min18:230 min19 Jun
Singapore18:01 → 19:0219:1295 min19:120 min19 Jun
Sydney20:01 → 21:0216:530 min16:53113 min20 Jun
Suva22:01 → 23:0217:390 min17:39104 min20 Jun
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vata-savitri-vrata@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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