Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1900

Tuesday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 322 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Monday 29 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:42 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:33
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:4208:06

0 of 111 minutes covered

Dawn of Tuesday 30 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

111 of 111 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 15:56 on Mon 29 Jan to 12:54 on Tue 30 Jan.

    1900-01-29T07:51:15Z → 1900-01-30T04:49:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:42–07:33 on the 29th, 05:41–07:32 on the 30th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 111 minutes on the 29th and 111 of 111 on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19301 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1900: Tuesday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1900 falls on Tuesday 30 January. Caturdaśī runs from 15:56 on Mon 29 Jan to 12:54 on Tue 30 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1900/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 30 Jan
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/yama-tarpana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Pauṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“K 14 Yama tarpana (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīAruṇodaya 29thCoveredAruṇodaya 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:51 → 20:4905:04108 min05:040 min29 Jan
Chicago01:51 → 22:4905:14113 min05:130 min29 Jan
Jersey City02:51 → 23:4905:18112 min05:170 min29 Jan
Port of Spain03:51 → 00:4904:5199 min04:510 min29 Jan
London07:51 → 04:4905:440 min05:430 min29 Jan
Durban09:21 → 06:1903:290 min03:2984 min30 Jan
Dubai11:32 → 08:3005:000 min05:00104 min30 Jan
Delhi13:12 → 10:1005:170 min05:16106 min30 Jan
Kolkata13:12 → 10:1004:250 min04:25103 min30 Jan
Singapore14:46 → 11:4404:360 min04:3696 min30 Jan
Sydney17:51 → 14:4903:520 min03:5382 min30 Jan
Suva19:46 → 16:4404:180 min04:1889 min30 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-tarpana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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