Ruling · Dyūta Pratipad · 2025

Wednesday 22 October

Determinatein Suva, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 165 minutes.

Decide it for

18°08′ S 178°26′ E · Pacific/Fiji · GeoNames 2198148

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Wednesday 22 October

Taken. The only forenoon Pratipadā reaches.

05:33 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:45
05:0905:5706:4507:3308:2109:0909:57

252 of 252 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 23 October

Pratipadā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:32 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:45
05:0805:5606:4407:3208:2009:0809:56

0 of 252 minutes covered

Pratipadā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 00:25 on Wed 22 Oct to 02:47 on Thu 23 Oct.

    2025-10-21T12:25:10Z → 2025-10-22T14:47:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:33–09:45 on the 22nd, 05:32–09:45 on the 23rd.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 252 of 252 minutes on the 22nd and 0 of 252 on the 23rd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one forenoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9905 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Dyūta Pratipad, Suva, 2025: Wednesday 22 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Suva, Dyūta Pratipad 2025 falls on Wednesday 22 October. Pratipadā runs from 00:25 on Wed 22 Oct to 02:47 on Thu 23 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/suva/festivals/2025/dyuta-pratipad · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 22 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 22 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 22 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Suva.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/dyuta-pratipad · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:25 → 07:4707:04222 min07:0443 min21 Oct
Chicago07:25 → 09:4707:11202 min07:12156 min21 Oct
Jersey City08:25 → 10:4707:15147 min07:16211 min22 Oct
Port of Spain08:25 → 10:4705:5687 min05:56236 min22 Oct
London13:25 → 15:4707:350 min07:37205 min22 Oct
Durban14:25 → 16:4705:120 min05:11260 min22 Oct
Dubai16:25 → 18:4706:200 min06:21228 min22 Oct
Delhi17:55 → 20:1706:260 min06:26226 min22 Oct
Kolkata17:55 → 20:1705:360 min05:36230 min22 Oct
Singapore20:25 → 22:4706:470 min06:47241 min22 Oct
Sydney23:25 → 01:4706:070 min06:06263 min22 Oct
Suva00:25 → 02:4705:340 min05:33252 min22 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
dyuta-pratipad@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s