Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2093

Wednesday 8 July

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Pūrṇimā reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day and the rule does not say what then. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Wednesday 8 July

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither morning; this is the day it falls on.

05:02 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:58
Pūrṇimā begins 05:02:24
04:3805:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:5008:14

176 of 177 minutes covered, the last 176

Morning of Thursday 9 July

Pūrṇimā is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

05:02 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:59
04:3805:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:5008:14

0 of 177 minutes covered

Pūrṇimā presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pūrṇimā runs from 05:02 on Wed 8 Jul to 01:15 on Thu 9 Jul.

    2093-07-07T21:02:25Z → 2093-07-08T17:15:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:02–07:58 on the 8th, 05:02–07:59 on the 9th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pūrṇimā must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 176 of 177 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 177 on the 9th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither morning qualifies. The day the tithi falls on is taken.

    priority: paraviddha → tithi-day · margin 54 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Baoding, 2093: Wednesday 8 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin, absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vyāsa Pūjā 2093 falls on Wednesday 8 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 05:02 on Wed 8 Jul to 01:15 on Thu 9 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day. It is 0 min 54 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2093/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 8 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 8 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 8 Jul
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/vyasa-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āṣāḍha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pūrṇimā
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 15 Guru purnima (paraviddha), Vyasa puja (paraviddha, 3 muhurtas after sunrise), Kokila vrata (sayahna vyapini). Siva sayanotsava (pradosavyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePūrṇimāSunrise 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:02 → 10:1505:490 min05:50171 min8 Jul
Chicago16:02 → 12:1505:240 min05:25180 min8 Jul
Jersey City17:02 → 13:1505:340 min05:34179 min8 Jul
Port of Spain17:02 → 13:1505:500 min05:51152 min8 Jul
London22:02 → 18:1504:540 min04:55196 min8 Jul
Durban23:02 → 19:1506:520 min06:52124 min8 Jul
Dubai01:02 → 21:1505:360 min05:36163 min8 Jul
Delhi02:32 → 22:4505:300 min05:31166 min8 Jul
Kolkata02:32 → 22:4504:590 min04:59161 min8 Jul
Singapore05:02 → 01:1507:050 min07:05146 min8 Jul
Sydney07:02 → 03:1507:010 min07:01118 min8 Jul
Suva09:02 → 05:1506:390 min06:390 min8 Jul
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vyasa-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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