Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1978

Wednesday 19 July

Boundaryin Bucharest, 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

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two mornings

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

Morning of Wednesday 19 July

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

04:49 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:50
04:2504:4905:1305:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:3708:01

0 of 181 minutes covered

Morning of Thursday 20 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 15 of 181 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

04:50 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:50
Pūrṇimā ends 05:04:49
04:2604:5005:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

15 of 181 minutes covered, the first 15

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 09:02 on Wed 19 Jul to 05:05 on Thu 20 Jul.

    1978-07-19T07:01:44Z → 1978-07-20T03:04:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 04:49–07:50 on the 19th, 04:50–07:50 on the 20th.

    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 0 of 181 minutes on the 19th and 15 of 181 on the 20th.

    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 916 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Bucharest, 1978: Wednesday 19 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vyāsa Pūjā 1978 falls on Wednesday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 09:02 on Wed 19 Jul to 05:05 on Thu 20 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1978/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 19 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 19 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 19 Jul
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:02 → 20:0505:55169 min05:560 min19 Jul
Chicago02:02 → 22:0505:32178 min05:330 min19 Jul
Jersey City03:02 → 23:0505:41176 min05:420 min19 Jul
Port of Spain03:02 → 23:0505:52152 min05:530 min19 Jul
London08:02 → 04:0505:0616 min05:070 min19 Jul
Durban09:02 → 05:0506:490 min06:480 min19 Jul
Dubai11:02 → 07:0505:400 min05:4084 min19 Jul
Delhi12:32 → 08:3505:350 min05:36165 min20 Jul
Kolkata12:32 → 08:3505:020 min05:03160 min20 Jul
Singapore14:32 → 10:3506:350 min06:36146 min20 Jul
Sydney17:02 → 13:0506:570 min06:56122 min20 Jul
Suva19:02 → 15:0506:380 min06:38134 min20 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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