Ruling · Rukmiṇī Dvādaśī · 2000

Sunday 14 May

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 291 minutes.

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

The two middays

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

Midday of Sunday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:48  13:36 madhyāhna ends
12:0012:2412:4813:1213:3614:0014:24

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 15 May

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:48  13:36 madhyāhna ends
12:0012:2412:4813:1213:3614:0014:24

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 07:55 on Sun 14 May to 07:57 on Mon 15 May.

    2000-05-14T04:54:40Z → 2000-05-15T04:57:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:48–13:36 on the 14th, 12:48–13:36 on the 15th.

    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 14th and 0 of 48 on the 15th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 17464 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Rukmiṇī Dvādaśī, Bucharest, 2000: Sunday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Rukmiṇī Dvādaśī 2000 falls on Sunday 14 May. Dvādaśī runs from 07:55 on Sun 14 May to 07:57 on Mon 15 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2000/rukmini-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 14 May
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/rukmini-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 12 Parasurama dvadasi (purvaviddha), Rukmini dvadasi (purvaviddha)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:55 → 21:5712:2648 min12:260 min14 May
Chicago23:55 → 23:5712:2348 min12:230 min14 May
Jersey City00:55 → 00:5712:2948 min12:290 min14 May
Port of Spain00:55 → 00:5711:3848 min11:380 min14 May
London05:55 → 05:5712:3348 min12:330 min14 May
Durban06:55 → 06:5711:2848 min11:280 min14 May
Dubai08:55 → 08:5711:5148 min11:510 min14 May
Delhi10:25 → 10:2711:5448 min11:540 min14 May
Kolkata10:25 → 10:2711:0948 min11:090 min14 May
Singapore12:55 → 12:5712:3730 min12:3720 min14 May
Sydney14:55 → 14:5711:270 min11:2748 min15 May
Suva16:55 → 16:5711:390 min11:3948 min15 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
rukmini-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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