Ruling · Durgā Saptamī · 2080

Sunday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 181 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Saturday 19 October

Saptamī is absent from the first muhūrta after sunrise. Not taken.

sunrise 06:33  07:17 one muhūrta on
05:4506:0906:3306:5707:2107:4508:09

0 of 44 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 20 October

Taken. The only morning Saptamī reaches.

sunrise 06:34  07:17 one muhūrta on
05:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:4608:10

44 of 44 minutes covered

Saptamī presentThe first muhūrta after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 10:17 on Sat 19 Oct to 12:22 on Sun 20 Oct.

    2080-10-19T02:17:20Z → 2080-10-20T04:22:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first muhūrta after sunrise is 1st of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:33–07:17 on the 19th, 06:34–07:17 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must hold through the first muhūrta after sunrise. It covers 0 of 44 minutes on the 19th and 44 of 44 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 10846 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Durgā Saptamī, Baoding, 2080: Sunday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Durgā Saptamī 2080 falls on Sunday 20 October. Saptamī runs from 10:17 on Sat 19 Oct to 12:22 on Sun 20 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2080/durga-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 20 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/durga-saptami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
The first muhūrta after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 7 Durga saptami (paraviddha) — covering one muhurta from sunrise” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīSunrise 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:17 → 21:2207:0345 min07:040 min19 Oct
Chicago21:17 → 23:2207:0943 min07:100 min19 Oct
Jersey City22:17 → 00:2207:1344 min07:150 min19 Oct
Port of Spain22:17 → 00:2205:5647 min05:560 min19 Oct
London03:17 → 05:2207:3342 min07:350 min19 Oct
Durban04:17 → 06:2205:1352 min05:1252 min20 Oct
Dubai06:17 → 08:2206:2046 min06:2046 min20 Oct
Delhi07:47 → 09:5206:250 min06:2645 min20 Oct
Kolkata07:47 → 09:5205:350 min05:3646 min20 Oct
Singapore10:17 → 12:2206:470 min06:4748 min20 Oct
Sydney13:17 → 15:2206:090 min06:0852 min20 Oct
Suva14:17 → 16:2205:350 min05:3450 min20 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
durga-saptami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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