Ruling · Muktābharaṇa Vrata · 2025

Saturday 30 August

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 451 minutes.

Decide it for

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23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 29 August

Saptamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:04  12:52 madhyāhna ends
11:1611:4012:0412:2812:5213:1613:40

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 30 August

Taken. The only midday Saptamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:03  12:51 madhyāhna ends
11:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:1513:39

48 of 48 minutes covered

Saptamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Saptamī runs from 20:22 on Fri 29 Aug to 22:47 on Sat 30 Aug.

    2025-08-29T14:52:24Z → 2025-08-30T17:17:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 29th, 12:03–12:51 on the 30th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 27043 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Muktābharaṇa Vrata, Ujjain, 2025: Saturday 30 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Muktābharaṇa Vrata 2025 falls on Saturday 30 August. Saptamī runs from 20:22 on Fri 29 Aug to 22:47 on Sat 30 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2025/muktabharana-vrata · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 30 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 30 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 30 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/muktabharana-vrata · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Saptamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 7 Muktabharana vrata (purvaviddha), Lalita saptami (Bengal & Orissa).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSaptamīMadhyāhna 29thCoveredMadhyāhna 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:52 → 10:1712:2948 min12:290 min29 Aug
Chicago09:52 → 12:1712:2748 min12:270 min29 Aug
Jersey City10:52 → 13:1712:3348 min12:3245 min29 Aug
Port of Spain10:52 → 13:1711:4348 min11:4348 min29 Aug
London15:52 → 18:1712:370 min12:3748 min30 Aug
Durban16:52 → 19:1711:330 min11:3348 min30 Aug
Dubai18:52 → 21:1711:560 min11:5548 min30 Aug
Delhi20:22 → 22:4711:580 min11:5748 min30 Aug
Kolkata20:22 → 22:4711:130 min11:1348 min30 Aug
Singapore22:52 → 01:1712:420 min12:4148 min30 Aug
Sydney00:52 → 03:1711:320 min11:3248 min30 Aug
Suva02:52 → 05:1711:430 min11:4348 min30 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
muktabharana-vrata@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s