Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1940

Friday 19 July

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 606 minutes.

Decide it for

46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two mornings

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

Morning of Friday 19 July

Taken. The only morning Pūrṇimā reaches.

05:05 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:09
04:4105:2906:1707:0507:5308:41

184 of 184 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 20 July

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

05:06 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:10
04:4205:3006:1807:0607:5408:42

0 of 184 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 18:59 on Thu 18 Jul to 18:55 on Fri 19 Jul.

    1940-07-18T09:59:17Z → 1940-07-19T09:55:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:05–08:09 on the 19th, 05:06–08:10 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 184 of 184 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 184 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 36360 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Daqing, 1940: Friday 19 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vyāsa Pūjā 1940 falls on Friday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 18:59 on Thu 18 Jul to 18:55 on Fri 19 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1940/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 19 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 19 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 19 Jul
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/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 Angeles01:59 → 01:5504:55170 min04:550 min18 Jul
Chicago04:59 → 04:5505:31178 min05:320 min18 Jul
Jersey City05:59 → 05:5505:40158 min05:4114 min18 Jul
Port of Spain05:59 → 05:5505:52145 min05:523 min18 Jul
London10:59 → 10:5505:040 min05:06192 min19 Jul
Durban11:59 → 11:5506:490 min06:49125 min19 Jul
Dubai13:59 → 13:5505:390 min05:40162 min19 Jul
Delhi15:29 → 15:2505:350 min05:35165 min19 Jul
Kolkata15:29 → 15:2505:020 min05:02160 min19 Jul
Singapore17:19 → 17:1506:250 min06:25146 min19 Jul
Sydney19:59 → 19:5506:570 min06:57122 min19 Jul
Suva21:59 → 21:5506:380 min06:38134 min19 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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