Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2016

Tuesday 19 July

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 219 minutes.

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 Tuesday 19 July

Taken. The only morning Pūrṇimā reaches.

05:49 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:50
05:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:2507:4908:1308:3709:01

181 of 181 minutes covered

Morning of Wednesday 20 July

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

05:50 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:51
05:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:5008:1408:3809:02

0 of 180 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 02:10 on Tue 19 Jul to 01:57 on Wed 20 Jul.

    2016-07-18T23:10:23Z → 2016-07-19T22:56:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:49–08:50 on the 19th, 05:50–08:51 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 181 of 181 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 180 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 13144 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Bucharest, 2016: Tuesday 19 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vyāsa Pūjā 2016 falls on Tuesday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 02:10 on Tue 19 Jul to 01:57 on Wed 20 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2016/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 19 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 19 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:10 → 15:5705:550 min05:56169 min19 Jul
Chicago18:10 → 17:5705:320 min05:33178 min19 Jul
Jersey City19:10 → 18:5705:410 min05:42176 min19 Jul
Port of Spain19:10 → 18:5705:520 min05:53152 min19 Jul
London00:10 → 23:5705:050 min05:07192 min19 Jul
Durban01:10 → 00:5706:490 min06:49126 min19 Jul
Dubai03:10 → 02:5705:400 min05:40162 min19 Jul
Delhi04:40 → 04:2705:350 min05:36165 min19 Jul
Kolkata04:40 → 04:2705:020 min05:03160 min19 Jul
Singapore07:10 → 06:5707:050 min07:06141 min19 Jul
Sydney09:10 → 08:5706:570 min06:560 min19 Jul
Suva11:10 → 10:5706:380 min06:380 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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