Ruling · Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) · 2060

Thursday 6 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 414 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

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

Midday of Thursday 6 May

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 7 May

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 04:46 on Thu 6 May to 04:57 on Fri 7 May.

    2060-05-05T20:46:14Z → 2060-05-06T20:57:15Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 6th, 11:51–12:39 on the 7th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 48 on the 7th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 24832 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Gaṅgotpatti, Baoding, 2060: Thursday 6 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Gaṅgotpatti (Ganga Saptami) 2060 falls on Thursday 6 May. Saptamī runs from 04:46 on Thu 6 May to 04:57 on Fri 7 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2060/gangotpatti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 6 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 6 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 6 May
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/gangotpatti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 7 Gangotpatti, (madhyahna vyapini, if occurs on two successive days, the first day is to be observed), Jahnu saptami, Sarkara saptami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 5thCoveredMadhyāhna 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:46 → 13:5712:260 min12:2648 min6 May
Chicago15:46 → 15:5712:240 min12:2448 min6 May
Jersey City16:46 → 16:5712:290 min12:2948 min6 May
Port of Spain16:46 → 16:5711:390 min11:3948 min6 May
London21:46 → 21:5712:340 min12:3448 min6 May
Durban22:46 → 22:5711:290 min11:2848 min6 May
Dubai00:46 → 00:5711:520 min11:5248 min6 May
Delhi02:16 → 02:2711:540 min11:5448 min6 May
Kolkata02:16 → 02:2711:090 min11:0948 min6 May
Singapore04:46 → 04:5712:370 min12:3748 min6 May
Sydney06:46 → 06:5711:280 min11:2848 min6 May
Suva08:46 → 08:5711:390 min11:3948 min6 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
gangotpatti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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