Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1905

Friday 3 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 575 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 Thursday 2 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:35 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:25
05:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

0 of 110 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 3 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:34 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:24
05:1005:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

110 of 110 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 17:00 on Thu 2 Feb to 17:49 on Fri 3 Feb.

    1905-02-02T08:59:57Z → 1905-02-03T09:48:51Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:35–07:25 on the 2nd, 05:34–07:24 on the 3rd.

    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 110 minutes on the 2nd and 110 of 110 on the 3rd.

    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 34501 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1905: Friday 3 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1905 falls on Friday 3 February. Caturdaśī runs from 17:00 on Thu 2 Feb to 17:49 on Fri 3 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1905/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 3 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 3 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 3 Feb
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 2ndCoveredAruṇodaya 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:00 → 01:4905:03108 min05:020 min2 Feb
Chicago03:00 → 03:4905:11112 min05:110 min2 Feb
Jersey City04:00 → 04:4905:15111 min05:150 min2 Feb
Port of Spain05:00 → 05:4904:5190 min04:5158 min2 Feb
London09:00 → 09:4905:400 min05:39118 min3 Feb
Durban11:00 → 11:4904:010 min04:0284 min3 Feb
Dubai12:41 → 13:3004:590 min04:59104 min3 Feb
Delhi14:21 → 15:1005:150 min05:15105 min3 Feb
Kolkata14:21 → 15:1004:240 min04:24103 min3 Feb
Singapore15:55 → 16:4404:360 min04:3696 min3 Feb
Sydney19:00 → 19:4903:550 min03:5682 min3 Feb
Suva20:55 → 21:4404:200 min04:2089 min3 Feb
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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