Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2064

Saturday 26 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 182 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Friday 25 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

0 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Saturday 26 January

Taken. The only dawn Saptamī reaches.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:30
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

112 of 112 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 10:33 on Fri 25 Jan to 12:47 on Sat 26 Jan.

    2064-01-25T02:32:51Z → 2064-01-26T04:47:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:31 on the 25th, 05:38–07:30 on the 26th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 112 minutes on the 25th and 112 of 112 on the 26th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 10933 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2064: Saturday 26 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2064 falls on Saturday 26 January. Saptamī runs from 10:33 on Fri 25 Jan to 12:47 on Sat 26 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2064/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 26 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 26 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 26 Jan
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/ratha-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha].” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīAruṇodaya 25thCoveredAruṇodaya 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:33 → 20:4705:05109 min05:050 min25 Jan
Chicago20:33 → 22:4705:16114 min05:150 min25 Jan
Jersey City21:33 → 23:4705:20113 min05:190 min25 Jan
Port of Spain22:33 → 00:4704:5199 min04:510 min25 Jan
London02:33 → 04:4705:48122 min05:470 min25 Jan
Durban04:33 → 06:4703:5646 min03:5683 min26 Jan
Dubai06:33 → 08:4705:1932 min05:19105 min26 Jan
Delhi08:03 → 10:1705:260 min05:26106 min26 Jan
Kolkata08:03 → 10:1704:340 min04:34104 min26 Jan
Singapore10:33 → 12:4705:400 min05:4096 min26 Jan
Sydney13:33 → 15:4704:490 min04:5081 min26 Jan
Suva14:33 → 16:4704:210 min04:2188 min26 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ratha-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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