Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1981

Friday 17 July

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 278 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two mornings

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

Morning of Thursday 16 July

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

04:02 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:08
03:3804:2605:1406:0206:5007:38

0 of 185 minutes covered

Morning of Friday 17 July

Taken. The only morning Pūrṇimā reaches.

04:03 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:08
03:3904:2705:1506:0306:5107:39

185 of 185 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 11:46 on Thu 16 Jul to 12:39 on Fri 17 Jul.

    1981-07-16T03:45:33Z → 1981-07-17T04:38:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 04:02–07:08 on the 16th, 04:03–07:08 on the 17th.

    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 0 of 185 minutes on the 16th and 185 of 185 on the 17th.

    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 16671 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Daqing, 1981: Friday 17 July.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vyāsa Pūjā 1981 falls on Friday 17 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 11:46 on Thu 16 Jul to 12:39 on Fri 17 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1981/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 17 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 17 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 17 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 16thCoveredSunrise 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:46 → 21:3905:54170 min05:540 min16 Jul
Chicago22:46 → 23:3905:30179 min05:310 min16 Jul
Jersey City23:46 → 00:3905:39177 min05:400 min16 Jul
Port of Spain23:46 → 00:3905:52152 min05:520 min16 Jul
London04:46 → 05:3905:02194 min05:0335 min16 Jul
Durban05:46 → 06:3906:50125 min06:490 min16 Jul
Dubai07:46 → 08:3905:3935 min05:39162 min17 Jul
Delhi09:16 → 10:0905:340 min05:34165 min17 Jul
Kolkata09:16 → 10:0905:010 min05:02160 min17 Jul
Singapore11:16 → 12:0906:350 min06:35146 min17 Jul
Sydney13:46 → 14:3906:580 min06:58121 min17 Jul
Suva15:46 → 16:3906:380 min06:38134 min17 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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