Sunday 10 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 14:09 on Sat 9 Mar to 15:49 on Sun 10 Mar.

   1963-03-09T06:09:02Z → 1963-03-10T07:48:34Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:40–18:01 on the 9th, 15:41–18:02 on the 10th.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 141 of 141 minutes on the 9th and 8 of 141 on the 10th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 483 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Saturday 9 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Shaoxing, 1963: Sunday 10 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Shaoxing, Holī 1963 falls on Sunday 10 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Saturday 9 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 14:09 on Sat 9 Mar to 15:49 on Sun 10 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 9th. It also reaches the next late afternoon for 8 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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