Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1913

Wednesday 5 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 77 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 Tuesday 4 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:33 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:23
05:0905:3305:5706:2106:4507:0907:33

0 of 110 minutes covered

Dawn of Wednesday 5 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:33 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:22
05:0905:3305:5706:2106:4507:0907:33

109 of 109 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 08:40 on Tue 4 Feb to 10:54 on Wed 5 Feb.

    1913-02-04T00:40:04Z → 1913-02-05T02:53:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:33–07:23 on the 4th, 05:33–07:22 on the 5th.

    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 4th and 109 of 109 on the 5th.

    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 4622 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1913: Wednesday 5 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1913 falls on Wednesday 5 February. Caturdaśī runs from 08:40 on Tue 4 Feb to 10:54 on Wed 5 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1913/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 5 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 5 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 5 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 4thCoveredAruṇodaya 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:40 → 18:5405:01107 min05:010 min4 Feb
Chicago18:40 → 20:5405:10111 min05:090 min4 Feb
Jersey City19:40 → 21:5405:14110 min05:130 min4 Feb
Port of Spain20:40 → 22:5404:5199 min04:510 min4 Feb
London00:40 → 02:5405:38118 min05:370 min4 Feb
Durban02:40 → 04:5404:0385 min04:0351 min4 Feb
Dubai04:21 → 06:3504:58104 min04:5897 min4 Feb
Delhi06:10 → 08:2405:2458 min05:23105 min5 Feb
Kolkata06:10 → 08:2404:335 min04:32102 min5 Feb
Singapore07:40 → 09:5404:410 min04:4196 min5 Feb
Sydney10:40 → 12:5403:570 min03:5783 min5 Feb
Suva12:35 → 14:4904:200 min04:2189 min5 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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