Ruling · Yama Dīpadāna · 2085

Tuesday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 30 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Monday 15 October

Trayodaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:39 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:22
17:1517:3918:0318:2718:5119:1519:39

0 of 103 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 16 October

Taken. The only evening Trayodaśī reaches.

17:38 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:21
17:1417:3818:0218:2618:5019:1419:38

103 of 103 minutes covered

Trayodaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Trayodaśī runs from 19:51 on Mon 15 Oct to 21:57 on Tue 16 Oct.

    2085-10-15T11:51:28Z → 2085-10-16T13:57:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:39–19:22 on the 15th, 17:38–19:21 on the 16th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 103 minutes on the 15th and 103 of 103 on the 16th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1770 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Dīpadāna, Baoding, 2085: Tuesday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Dīpadāna 2085 falls on Tuesday 16 October. Trayodaśī runs from 19:51 on Mon 15 Oct to 21:57 on Tue 16 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2085/yama-dipadana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 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/yama-dipadana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Trayodaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTrayodaśīSunset 15thCoveredSunset 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:51 → 06:5718:18102 min18:170 min15 Oct
Chicago06:51 → 08:5718:08104 min18:060 min15 Oct
Jersey City07:51 → 09:5718:15103 min18:130 min15 Oct
Port of Spain07:51 → 09:5717:4897 min17:480 min15 Oct
London12:51 → 14:5718:06107 min18:040 min15 Oct
Durban13:51 → 15:5718:0689 min18:070 min15 Oct
Dubai15:51 → 17:5717:51100 min17:507 min15 Oct
Delhi17:21 → 19:2717:51100 min17:5097 min15 Oct
Kolkata17:21 → 19:2717:1189 min17:1099 min16 Oct
Singapore19:51 → 21:5718:5337 min18:5395 min16 Oct
Sydney22:51 → 00:5719:090 min19:1088 min16 Oct
Suva23:51 → 01:5718:070 min18:0792 min16 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-dipadana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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