Ruling · Holikā Dahana · 2021

Sunday 28 March

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 491 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 Saturday 27 March

Pūrṇimā is absent from sāyāhna. Not taken.

16:07 sāyāhna beginssunset 18:36
15:4316:0716:3116:5517:1917:4318:0718:3118:55

0 of 149 minutes covered

Late afternoon of Sunday 28 March

Taken. The only late afternoon Pūrṇimā reaches.

16:08 sāyāhna beginssunset 18:37
15:4416:0816:3216:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:56

150 of 150 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 05:57 on Sun 28 Mar to 02:48 on Mon 29 Mar.

    2021-03-27T21:57:28Z → 2021-03-28T18:48:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:07–18:36 on the 27th, 16:08–18:37 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 0 of 149 minutes on the 27th and 150 of 150 on the 28th.

    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 29447 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Holikā Dahana, Baoding, 2021: Sunday 28 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Holikā Dahana 2021 falls on Sunday 28 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 05:57 on Sun 28 Mar to 02:48 on Mon 29 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna that late afternoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2021/holika-dahana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 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 27thCoveredSāyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:57 → 11:4816:41149 min16:420 min27 Mar
Chicago16:57 → 13:4816:41133 min16:410 min27 Mar
Jersey City17:57 → 14:4816:4678 min16:470 min27 Mar
Port of Spain17:57 → 14:4815:5119 min15:500 min27 Mar
London21:57 → 19:4815:540 min16:55152 min28 Mar
Durban23:57 → 20:4815:350 min15:34143 min28 Mar
Dubai01:57 → 22:4816:050 min16:06148 min28 Mar
Delhi03:27 → 00:1816:080 min16:09148 min28 Mar
Kolkata03:27 → 00:1815:230 min15:23147 min28 Mar
Singapore05:57 → 02:4816:480 min16:48145 min28 Mar
Sydney08:57 → 05:4816:340 min16:33142 min28 Mar
Suva09:57 → 06:4815:480 min15:47144 min28 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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