Ruling · Vyāsa Pūjā · 2017

Saturday 8 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 8 July

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

05:56 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:49
Pūrṇimā begins 06:31:27
05:3205:5606:2006:4407:0807:3207:5608:2008:4409:08

138 of 173 minutes covered, the last 138

Morning of Sunday 9 July

Pūrṇimā holds for 160 of 173 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

05:56 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:50
Pūrṇimā ends 08:36:34
05:3205:5606:2006:4407:0807:3207:5608:2008:4409:08

160 of 173 minutes covered, the first 160

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 06:31 on Sat 8 Jul to 08:37 on Sun 9 Jul.

    2017-07-08T02:01:27Z → 2017-07-09T04:06:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:56–08:49 on the 8th, 05:56–08:50 on the 9th.

    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 138 of 173 minutes on the 8th and 160 of 173 on the 9th.

    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 783 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vyāsa Pūjā, Tehran, 2017: Saturday 8 July.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vyāsa Pūjā 2017 falls on Saturday 8 July. Pūrṇimā runs from 06:31 on Sat 8 Jul to 08:37 on Sun 9 Jul, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/2017/vyasa-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 8 Jul
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 8 Jul
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 8 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:01 → 21:0705:49172 min05:500 min8 Jul
Chicago21:01 → 23:0705:24181 min05:250 min8 Jul
Jersey City22:01 → 00:0705:33179 min05:340 min8 Jul
Port of Spain22:01 → 00:0705:50153 min05:500 min8 Jul
London03:01 → 05:0704:54197 min04:5512 min8 Jul
Durban04:01 → 06:0706:52124 min06:520 min8 Jul
Dubai06:01 → 08:0705:35137 min05:36151 min8 Jul
Delhi07:31 → 09:3705:3045 min05:30166 min9 Jul
Kolkata07:31 → 09:3704:588 min04:59161 min9 Jul
Singapore10:01 → 12:0707:040 min07:04146 min9 Jul
Sydney12:01 → 14:0707:000 min07:00120 min9 Jul
Suva14:01 → 16:0706:390 min06:39133 min9 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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