Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2016

Tuesday 19 July

Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Pūrṇimā reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day and the rule does not say what then. Say “contested”.

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 Tuesday 19 July

Taken. Pūrṇimā reaches neither morning; this is the day it falls on.

04:06 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:10
Pūrṇimā begins 07:10:23
03:4204:3005:1806:0606:5407:42

0 of 184 minutes covered

Morning of Wednesday 20 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 169 of 184 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

04:07 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:11
Pūrṇimā ends 06:56:34
03:4304:3105:1906:0706:5507:43

169 of 184 minutes covered, the first 169

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 07:10 on Tue 19 Jul to 06:57 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: 04:06–07:10 on the 19th, 04:07–07:11 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 0 of 184 minutes on the 19th and 169 of 184 on the 20th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither morning qualifies. The day the tithi falls on is taken.

    priority: paraviddha → tithi-day · margin 20 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Daqing, 2016: Tuesday 19 July.

    confidence: boundary (margin, absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vyāsa Pūjā 2016 falls on Tuesday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 07:10 on Tue 19 Jul to 06:57 on Wed 20 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day. It is 0 min 20 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/daqing/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 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 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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