Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1925

Friday 23 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 6 min 27 s.

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 Friday 23 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
Caturdaśī begins 05:46:02
05:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:04

106 of 113 minutes covered, the last 106

Dawn of Saturday 24 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:32
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 112 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 05:46 on Fri 23 Jan to 02:14 on Sat 24 Jan.

    1925-01-22T21:46:03Z → 1925-01-23T18:13:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:40–07:32 on the 23rd, 05:39–07:32 on the 24th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 106 of 113 minutes on the 23rd and 0 of 112 on the 24th.

    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 387 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1925: Friday 23 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1925 falls on Friday 23 January. Caturdaśī runs from 05:46 on Fri 23 Jan to 02:14 on Sat 24 Jan and covers 106 of 113 minutes of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1925/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 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 22ndCoveredAruṇodaya 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:46 → 10:1405:070 min05:06110 min23 Jan
Chicago15:46 → 12:1405:180 min05:17115 min23 Jan
Jersey City16:46 → 13:1405:210 min05:21114 min23 Jan
Port of Spain17:46 → 14:1404:510 min04:5199 min23 Jan
London21:46 → 18:1405:500 min05:50123 min23 Jan
Durban23:46 → 20:1403:540 min03:5482 min23 Jan
Dubai01:46 → 22:1405:200 min05:20105 min23 Jan
Delhi03:16 → 23:4405:270 min05:27107 min23 Jan
Kolkata03:16 → 23:4404:350 min04:35104 min23 Jan
Singapore04:46 → 01:1404:390 min04:3989 min23 Jan
Sydney07:46 → 04:1403:460 min03:470 min24 Jan
Suva09:46 → 06:1404:190 min04:200 min24 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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