Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2079

Wednesday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 188 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Wednesday 25 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

06:38 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1407:0207:5008:3809:2610:14

216 of 216 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 26 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:39 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:14
06:1507:0307:5108:3909:2710:15

0 of 215 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 02:21 on Wed 25 Oct to 03:31 on Thu 26 Oct.

    2079-10-24T18:20:46Z → 2079-10-25T19:31:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:38–10:14 on the 25th, 06:39–10:14 on the 26th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 216 of 216 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 215 on the 26th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11269 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Baoding, 2079: Wednesday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dyūta Pratipad 2079 falls on Wednesday 25 October. Pratipadā runs from 02:21 on Wed 25 Oct to 03:31 on Thu 26 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2079/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 25 Oct
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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 24thCoveredSunrise 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:21 → 12:3107:060 min07:07220 min25 Oct
Chicago13:21 → 14:3107:140 min07:15213 min25 Oct
Jersey City14:21 → 15:3107:180 min07:19214 min25 Oct
Port of Spain14:21 → 15:3105:560 min05:56236 min25 Oct
London19:21 → 20:3107:410 min07:42201 min25 Oct
Durban20:21 → 21:3105:090 min05:08261 min25 Oct
Dubai22:21 → 23:3106:220 min06:23227 min25 Oct
Delhi23:51 → 01:0106:280 min06:29224 min25 Oct
Kolkata23:51 → 01:0105:370 min05:38229 min25 Oct
Singapore02:21 → 03:3106:470 min06:47241 min25 Oct
Sydney05:21 → 06:3106:040 min06:03265 min25 Oct
Suva06:21 → 07:3105:320 min05:31203 min25 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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