Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2001

Thursday 15 November

Boundaryin Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 28 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Thursday 15 November

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

07:12 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
Pratipadā begins 08:39:58
06:4807:3608:2409:1210:0010:48

104 of 192 minutes covered, the last 104

Forenoon of Friday 16 November

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:13 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
Pratipadā ends 07:11:43
06:4907:3708:2509:1310:0110:49

0 of 191 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 08:40 on Thu 15 Nov to 07:12 on Fri 16 Nov.

    2001-11-15T06:39:59Z → 2001-11-16T05:11:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:12–10:24 on the 15th, 07:13–10:24 on the 16th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 104 of 192 minutes on the 15th and 0 of 191 on the 16th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 88 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Bucharest, 2001: Thursday 15 November.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Dyūta Pratipad 2001 falls on Thursday 15 November. Pratipadā runs from 08:40 on Thu 15 Nov to 07:12 on Fri 16 Nov and covers 104 of 192 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It is 1 min 28 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2001/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 15 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 15 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 15 Nov
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/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:40 → 21:1206:26208 min06:270 min15 Nov
Chicago00:40 → 23:1206:41196 min06:420 min15 Nov
Jersey City01:40 → 00:1206:44198 min06:450 min15 Nov
Port of Spain02:40 → 01:1206:02233 min06:020 min15 Nov
London06:40 → 05:1207:19177 min07:210 min15 Nov
Durban08:40 → 07:1204:5245 min04:52140 min16 Nov
Dubai10:40 → 09:1206:360 min06:36155 min16 Nov
Delhi12:10 → 10:4206:440 min06:45214 min16 Nov
Kolkata12:10 → 10:4205:490 min05:50221 min16 Nov
Singapore14:40 → 13:1206:480 min06:48241 min16 Nov
Sydney17:40 → 16:1205:440 min05:43278 min16 Nov
Suva18:40 → 17:1205:220 min05:22259 min16 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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