Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1934

Sunday 14 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 38 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 Sunday 14 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:42 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:4208:06

115 of 115 minutes covered

Dawn of Monday 15 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:42 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:4208:06

0 of 114 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 05:04 on Sun 14 Jan to 01:22 on Mon 15 Jan.

    1934-01-13T21:03:37Z → 1934-01-14T17:21:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:42–07:36 on the 14th, 05:42–07:36 on the 15th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 115 of 115 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 114 on the 15th.

    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 2290 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1934: Sunday 14 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1934 falls on Sunday 14 January. Caturdaśī runs from 05:04 on Sun 14 Jan to 01:22 on Mon 15 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1934/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 14 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 14 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 14 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 13thCoveredAruṇodaya 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:04 → 09:2205:080 min05:08111 min14 Jan
Chicago15:04 → 11:2205:200 min05:20117 min14 Jan
Jersey City16:04 → 12:2205:240 min05:24116 min14 Jan
Port of Spain17:04 → 13:2204:490 min04:49100 min14 Jan
London21:04 → 17:2205:560 min05:55126 min14 Jan
Durban23:04 → 19:2203:470 min03:4881 min14 Jan
Dubai01:04 → 21:2205:200 min05:20106 min14 Jan
Delhi02:34 → 22:5205:270 min05:27108 min14 Jan
Kolkata02:34 → 22:5204:340 min04:34105 min14 Jan
Singapore04:24 → 00:4204:560 min04:5696 min14 Jan
Sydney07:04 → 03:2203:390 min03:400 min14 Jan
Suva09:04 → 05:2204:140 min04:150 min15 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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