Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1928

Saturday 21 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 62 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 Saturday 21 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:34
05:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:04

113 of 113 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 22 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:33
05:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:04

0 of 113 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 04:21 on Sat 21 Jan to 04:39 on Sun 22 Jan.

    1928-01-20T20:21:02Z → 1928-01-21T20:38:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:40–07:34 on the 21st, 05:40–07:33 on the 22nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 113 of 113 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 113 on the 22nd.

    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 3700 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1928: Saturday 21 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1928 falls on Saturday 21 January. Caturdaśī runs from 04:21 on Sat 21 Jan to 04:39 on Sun 22 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1928/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 21 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 21 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 21 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 20thCoveredAruṇodaya 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:21 → 12:3905:070 min05:07110 min21 Jan
Chicago14:21 → 14:3905:190 min05:18115 min21 Jan
Jersey City15:21 → 15:3905:220 min05:22114 min21 Jan
Port of Spain16:21 → 16:3904:500 min04:5099 min21 Jan
London20:21 → 20:3905:520 min05:52124 min21 Jan
Durban22:21 → 22:3903:520 min03:5282 min21 Jan
Dubai00:21 → 00:3905:200 min05:20106 min21 Jan
Delhi01:51 → 02:0905:270 min05:27107 min21 Jan
Kolkata01:51 → 02:0904:350 min04:35104 min21 Jan
Singapore03:21 → 03:3904:380 min04:3996 min21 Jan
Sydney06:21 → 06:3903:440 min03:450 min22 Jan
Suva08:21 → 08:3904:180 min04:180 min22 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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