Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 2088

Saturday 28 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 223 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 28 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 29 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:55  12:43 madhyāhna ends
11:0711:3111:5512:1912:4313:0713:31

0 of 48 minutes covered

Dvādaśī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Dvādaśī runs from 06:20 on Sat 28 Aug to 08:12 on Sun 29 Aug.

    2088-08-27T22:19:35Z → 2088-08-29T00:11:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:55–12:43 on the 28th, 11:55–12:43 on the 29th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Dvādaśī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 48 on the 29th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 13392 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Baoding, 2088: Saturday 28 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2088 falls on Saturday 28 August. Dvādaśī runs from 06:20 on Sat 28 Aug to 08:12 on Sun 29 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2088/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 28 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 28 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 28 Aug
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/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:20 → 17:1212:300 min12:300 min28 Aug
Chicago17:20 → 19:1212:280 min12:270 min28 Aug
Jersey City18:20 → 20:1212:330 min12:330 min28 Aug
Port of Spain18:20 → 20:1211:440 min11:430 min28 Aug
London23:20 → 01:1212:380 min12:370 min28 Aug
Durban00:20 → 02:1211:340 min11:330 min28 Aug
Dubai02:20 → 04:1211:560 min11:560 min28 Aug
Delhi03:50 → 05:4211:590 min11:580 min28 Aug
Kolkata03:50 → 05:4211:140 min11:130 min28 Aug
Singapore06:20 → 08:1212:420 min12:420 min28 Aug
Sydney08:20 → 10:1211:330 min11:330 min28 Aug
Suva10:20 → 12:1211:440 min11:4428 min28 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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