Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2025

Thursday 10 July

Boundaryin Suva, 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

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

The two mornings

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

Morning of Thursday 10 July

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

06:39 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:52
Pūrṇimā begins 08:07:26
06:1506:3907:0307:2707:5108:1508:3909:03

45 of 133 minutes covered, the last 45

Morning of Friday 11 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 118 of 133 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

06:39 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:52
Pūrṇimā ends 08:36:47
06:1506:3907:0307:2707:5108:1508:3909:03

118 of 133 minutes covered, the first 118

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 08:07 on Thu 10 Jul to 08:37 on Fri 11 Jul.

    2025-07-09T20:07:26Z → 2025-07-10T20:36:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:39–08:52 on the 10th, 06:39–08:52 on the 11th.

    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 45 of 133 minutes on the 10th and 118 of 133 on the 11th.

    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 914 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Suva, 2025: Thursday 10 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Suva, Vyāsa Pūjā 2025 falls on Thursday 10 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 08:07 on Thu 10 Jul to 08:37 on Fri 11 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/suva/festivals/2025/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 10 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 10 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 10 Jul
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/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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:07 → 13:3705:500 min05:50171 min10 Jul
Chicago15:07 → 15:3705:250 min05:26180 min10 Jul
Jersey City16:07 → 16:3705:340 min05:35179 min10 Jul
Port of Spain16:07 → 16:3705:500 min05:50152 min10 Jul
London21:07 → 21:3704:550 min04:56196 min10 Jul
Durban22:07 → 22:3706:520 min06:51124 min10 Jul
Dubai00:07 → 00:3705:360 min05:36163 min10 Jul
Delhi01:37 → 02:0705:300 min05:31166 min10 Jul
Kolkata01:37 → 02:0704:590 min04:59161 min10 Jul
Singapore04:07 → 04:3707:040 min07:04146 min10 Jul
Sydney06:07 → 06:3707:000 min07:00120 min10 Jul
Suva08:07 → 08:3706:390 min06:3945 min10 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