Ruling · Dāmodara Dvādaśī · 1908

Sunday 9 August

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 552 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

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

Midday of Sunday 9 August

Taken. The only midday Dvādaśī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:21  12:09 madhyāhna ends
10:3310:5711:2111:4512:0912:3312:57

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 10 August

Dvādaśī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:21  12:09 madhyāhna ends
10:3310:5711:2111:4512:0912:3312:57

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 02:09 on Sun 9 Aug to 23:33 on Sun 9 Aug.

    1908-08-08T18:09:02Z → 1908-08-09T15:32:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:21–12:09 on the 9th, 11:21–12:09 on the 10th.

    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 9th and 0 of 48 on the 10th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 33117 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Daqing, 1908: Sunday 9 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 1908 falls on Sunday 9 August. Dvādaśī runs from 02:09 on Sun 9 Aug to 23:33 on Sun 9 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1908/damodara-dvadashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 9 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 9 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 9 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/damodara-dvadashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Dvādaśī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceDvādaśīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:09 → 07:3311:3448 min11:340 min8 Aug
Chicago12:09 → 09:3311:3211 min11:320 min8 Aug
Jersey City13:09 → 10:3311:370 min11:370 min9 Aug
Port of Spain14:09 → 11:3311:470 min11:470 min9 Aug
London18:09 → 15:3311:410 min11:4148 min9 Aug
Durban20:09 → 17:3311:380 min11:3748 min9 Aug
Dubai21:50 → 19:1411:410 min11:4148 min9 Aug
Delhi23:39 → 21:0312:020 min12:0248 min9 Aug
Kolkata23:39 → 21:0311:180 min11:1848 min9 Aug
Singapore01:09 → 22:3311:460 min11:4648 min9 Aug
Sydney04:09 → 01:3311:370 min11:3748 min9 Aug
Suva06:04 → 03:2811:430 min11:4348 min9 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
damodara-dvadashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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