Ruling · Śiva Śayanotsava · 2021

Friday 23 July

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 383 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 Friday 23 July

Taken. The only evening Pūrṇimā reaches.

19:37 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:54
19:1319:3720:0120:2520:4921:1321:37

77 of 77 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 24 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:36 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:53
19:1219:3620:0020:2420:4821:1221:36

0 of 77 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 13:14 on Fri 23 Jul to 10:37 on Sat 24 Jul.

    2021-07-23T05:13:49Z → 2021-07-24T02:36:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:37–20:54 on the 23rd, 19:36–20:53 on the 24th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 77 of 77 minutes on the 23rd and 0 of 77 on the 24th.

    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: unstated → only-day · margin 23007 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śiva Śayanotsava, Baoding, 2021: Friday 23 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śiva Śayanotsava 2021 falls on Friday 23 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 13:14 on Fri 23 Jul to 10:37 on Sat 24 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2021/shiva-shayanotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 Jul
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/shiva-shayanotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunset 23rdCoveredSunset 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:14 → 19:3720:000 min19:590 min22 Jul
Chicago00:14 → 21:3720:1775 min20:160 min23 Jul
Jersey City01:14 → 22:3720:2075 min20:190 min23 Jul
Port of Spain01:14 → 22:3718:3291 min18:310 min23 Jul
London06:14 → 03:3721:0166 min21:000 min23 Jul
Durban07:14 → 04:3717:18108 min17:190 min23 Jul
Dubai09:14 → 06:3719:0885 min19:080 min23 Jul
Delhi10:44 → 08:0719:1783 min19:170 min23 Jul
Kolkata10:44 → 08:0718:2186 min18:210 min23 Jul
Singapore13:14 → 10:3719:1695 min19:160 min23 Jul
Sydney15:14 → 12:3717:09110 min17:100 min23 Jul
Suva17:14 → 14:3717:49102 min17:490 min23 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shiva-shayanotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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