Ruling · Ratha Saptamī · 2083

Monday 25 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 361 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 Sunday 24 January

Saptamī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Monday 25 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 13:32 on Sun 24 Jan to 15:50 on Mon 25 Jan.

    2083-01-24T05:32:00Z → 2083-01-25T07:50:12Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:31 on the 24th, 05:38–07:30 on the 25th.

    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 24th and 112 of 112 on the 25th.

    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 21655 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ratha Saptamī, Baoding, 2083: Monday 25 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ratha Saptamī 2083 falls on Monday 25 January. Saptamī runs from 13:32 on Sun 24 Jan to 15:50 on Mon 25 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2083/ratha-saptami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 25 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 25 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 25 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 24thCoveredAruṇodaya 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:32 → 23:5005:06109 min05:050 min24 Jan
Chicago23:32 → 01:5005:16114 min05:160 min24 Jan
Jersey City00:32 → 02:5005:20113 min05:190 min24 Jan
Port of Spain01:32 → 03:5004:5199 min04:510 min24 Jan
London05:32 → 07:5005:48122 min05:47122 min24 Jan
Durban07:32 → 09:5003:550 min03:5683 min25 Jan
Dubai09:32 → 11:5005:200 min05:19105 min25 Jan
Delhi11:02 → 13:2005:260 min05:26107 min25 Jan
Kolkata11:02 → 13:2004:340 min04:34104 min25 Jan
Singapore13:32 → 15:5005:400 min05:4096 min25 Jan
Sydney16:32 → 18:5004:480 min04:4981 min25 Jan
Suva17:32 → 19:5004:200 min04:2188 min25 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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