Ruling · Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) · 1913

Sunday 18 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 17 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Sunday 18 May

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:25 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:42
Caturdaśī begins 19:07:38
19:0119:2519:4920:1320:3721:0121:25

77 of 77 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 19 May

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:26 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:43
19:0219:2619:5020:1420:3821:0221:26

0 of 77 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 19:08 on Sun 18 May to 17:04 on Mon 19 May.

    1913-05-18T11:07:39Z → 1913-05-19T09:03:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:25–20:42 on the 18th, 19:26–20:43 on the 19th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 77 of 77 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 77 on the 19th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 1047 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1913: Sunday 18 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) 1913 falls on Sunday 18 May. Caturdaśī runs from 19:08 on Sun 18 May to 17:04 on Mon 19 May and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1913/nrisimha-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 18 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 18 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 18 May
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/nrisimha-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 14 Nrsimha caturdasi (pradosa vyapini — if it occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed, special when combined with naksatra 'Svati', yoga 'Siddhi' and 'Saturday').” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102. The row calls the day special with Svātī nakṣatra, Siddhi yoga and a Saturday; none is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:08 → 01:0418:4980 min18:500 min18 May
Chicago05:08 → 03:0419:0675 min19:070 min18 May
Jersey City06:08 → 04:0419:0976 min19:100 min18 May
Port of Spain07:08 → 05:0418:2191 min18:210 min18 May
London11:08 → 09:0419:4966 min19:500 min18 May
Durban13:08 → 11:0417:09108 min17:090 min18 May
Dubai14:49 → 12:4518:3885 min18:380 min18 May
Delhi16:38 → 14:3419:0683 min19:060 min18 May
Kolkata16:38 → 14:3418:1086 min18:110 min18 May
Singapore18:08 → 16:0418:0693 min18:060 min18 May
Sydney21:08 → 19:0417:010 min17:00110 min19 May
Suva23:03 → 20:5917:350 min17:34102 min19 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
nrisimha-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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