Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1908

Monday 13 July

Boundaryin Shaoxing, 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

30°00′ N 120°35′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1795855

The two mornings

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

Morning of Monday 13 July

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

05:05 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:52
04:4105:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:5308:17

0 of 167 minutes covered

Morning of Tuesday 14 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 42 of 167 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

05:06 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 07:53
Pūrṇimā ends 05:47:43
04:4205:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:3007:5408:18

42 of 167 minutes covered, the first 42

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 09:06 on Mon 13 Jul to 05:48 on Tue 14 Jul.

    1908-07-13T01:06:06Z → 1908-07-13T21:47:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:05–07:52 on the 13th, 05:06–07:53 on the 14th.

    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 167 minutes on the 13th and 42 of 167 on the 14th.

    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 2518 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Shaoxing, 1908: Monday 13 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Shaoxing, Vyāsa Pūjā 1908 falls on Monday 13 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 09:06 on Mon 13 Jul to 05:48 on Tue 14 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/shaoxing/festivals/1908/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 13 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 13 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 13 Jul
No institution has a recorded ruling for Shaoxing.

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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:06 → 13:4804:51171 min04:520 min13 Jul
Chicago19:06 → 15:4804:27180 min04:280 min13 Jul
Jersey City20:06 → 16:4804:36178 min04:370 min13 Jul
Port of Spain21:06 → 17:4805:51152 min05:510 min13 Jul
London01:06 → 21:4803:58195 min03:590 min13 Jul
Durban03:06 → 23:4806:51124 min06:500 min13 Jul
Dubai04:47 → 01:2905:18163 min05:180 min13 Jul
Delhi06:36 → 03:1805:32101 min05:320 min13 Jul
Kolkata06:36 → 03:1805:0064 min05:000 min13 Jul
Singapore08:06 → 04:4806:0525 min06:050 min13 Jul
Sydney11:06 → 07:4806:590 min06:5949 min13 Jul
Suva13:01 → 09:4306:330 min06:33133 min14 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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