Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 1997

Saturday 19 July

Boundaryin Tehran, 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

35°42′ N 51°25′ E · Asia/Tehran · GeoNames 112931

The two mornings

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

Morning of Saturday 19 July

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

06:03 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:54
05:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:0308:2708:5109:15

0 of 171 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 20 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 107 of 171 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

06:03 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:54
Pūrṇimā ends 07:50:16
05:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:0308:2708:5109:15

107 of 171 minutes covered, the first 107

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 10:45 on Sat 19 Jul to 07:50 on Sun 20 Jul.

    1997-07-19T06:15:25Z → 1997-07-20T03:20:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:03–08:54 on the 19th, 06:03–08:54 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 171 minutes on the 19th and 107 of 171 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 3835 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Tehran, 1997: Saturday 19 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vyāsa Pūjā 1997 falls on Saturday 19 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 10:45 on Sat 19 Jul to 07:50 on Sun 20 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/1997/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 Jul
No institution has a recorded ruling for Tehran.

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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:15 → 20:2005:56169 min05:560 min19 Jul
Chicago01:15 → 22:2005:33178 min05:330 min19 Jul
Jersey City02:15 → 23:2005:42176 min05:420 min19 Jul
Port of Spain02:15 → 23:2005:53152 min05:530 min19 Jul
London07:15 → 04:2005:0663 min05:070 min19 Jul
Durban08:15 → 05:2006:4939 min06:480 min19 Jul
Dubai10:15 → 07:2005:400 min05:41100 min19 Jul
Delhi11:45 → 08:5005:350 min05:36165 min20 Jul
Kolkata11:45 → 08:5005:030 min05:03160 min20 Jul
Singapore14:15 → 11:2007:060 min07:06146 min20 Jul
Sydney16:15 → 13:2006:570 min06:56122 min20 Jul
Suva18:15 → 15:2006:380 min06:38134 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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