Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 2023

Monday 28 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 490 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Sunday 27 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:56  12:44 madhyāhna ends
11:0811:3211:5612:2012:4413:0813:32

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 28 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

48 of 48 minutes covered

Dvādaśī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 00:03 on Mon 28 Aug to 20:53 on Mon 28 Aug.

    2023-08-27T16:03:01Z → 2023-08-28T12:53:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:56–12:44 on the 27th, 11:55–12:43 on the 28th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 27th and 48 of 48 on the 28th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 29400 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2023: Monday 28 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2023 falls on Monday 28 August. Dvādaśī runs from 00:03 on Mon 28 Aug to 20:53 on Mon 28 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2023/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 28 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 28 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 28 Aug
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/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:03 → 05:5312:3048 min12:300 min27 Aug
Chicago11:03 → 07:5312:2848 min12:270 min27 Aug
Jersey City12:03 → 08:5312:3448 min12:330 min27 Aug
Port of Spain12:03 → 08:5311:4429 min11:430 min27 Aug
London17:03 → 13:5312:380 min12:3748 min28 Aug
Durban18:03 → 14:5311:340 min11:3348 min28 Aug
Dubai20:03 → 16:5311:560 min11:5648 min28 Aug
Delhi21:33 → 18:2311:590 min11:5848 min28 Aug
Kolkata21:33 → 18:2311:140 min11:1448 min28 Aug
Singapore00:03 → 20:5312:420 min12:4248 min28 Aug
Sydney02:03 → 22:5311:330 min11:3348 min28 Aug
Suva04:03 → 00:5311:440 min11:4448 min28 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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