Ruling · Holikā Dahana · 2019

Wednesday 20 March

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 169 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two late afternoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Late afternoon of Wednesday 20 March

Taken. The only late afternoon Pūrṇimā reaches.

16:04 sāyāhna beginssunset 18:29
15:4016:0416:2816:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:52

145 of 145 minutes covered

Late afternoon of Thursday 21 March

Pūrṇimā is absent from sāyāhna. Not taken.

16:04 sāyāhna beginssunset 18:30
15:4016:0416:2816:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:52

0 of 146 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 13:15 on Wed 20 Mar to 09:43 on Thu 21 Mar.

    2019-03-20T05:15:03Z → 2019-03-21T01:42:52Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:04–18:29 on the 20th, 16:04–18:30 on the 21st.

    sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 145 of 145 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 146 on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one late afternoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10133 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Holikā Dahana, Baoding, 2019: Wednesday 20 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Holikā Dahana 2019 falls on Wednesday 20 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:15 on Wed 20 Mar to 09:43 on Thu 21 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna that late afternoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2019/holika-dahana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 Mar
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/holika-dahana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Phālguna, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Sāyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 15 Holika-dahana (Sayahnavyapini — it should be observed on second half of purnima at night), Dolayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise of the day of festival), Holi — on the day after Holikadahana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105. The hour the row gives for the rite ("it should be observed on second half of purnima at night") is not tested: sāyāhna alone settles the day.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSāyāhna 20thCoveredSāyāhna 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:15 → 18:4316:39124 min16:390 min20 Mar
Chicago00:15 → 20:4316:37146 min16:370 min20 Mar
Jersey City01:15 → 21:4316:42146 min16:430 min20 Mar
Port of Spain01:15 → 21:4315:51145 min15:510 min20 Mar
London05:15 → 01:4315:47146 min15:480 min20 Mar
Durban07:15 → 03:4315:42146 min15:410 min20 Mar
Dubai09:15 → 05:4316:04145 min16:040 min20 Mar
Delhi10:45 → 07:1316:07145 min16:070 min20 Mar
Kolkata10:45 → 07:1315:22145 min15:220 min20 Mar
Singapore13:15 → 09:4316:50145 min16:500 min20 Mar
Sydney16:15 → 12:4316:41146 min16:400 min20 Mar
Suva17:15 → 13:4315:5263 min15:510 min20 Mar
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
holika-dahana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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