Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1937

Friday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 245 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Friday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 15 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 07:46 on Fri 14 May to 05:30 on Sat 15 May.

    1937-05-13T23:45:54Z → 1937-05-14T21:29:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 14th, 11:51–12:39 on the 15th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 48 on the 15th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14686 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1937: Friday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1937 falls on Friday 14 May. Pañcamī runs from 07:46 on Fri 14 May to 05:30 on Sat 15 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1937/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 14 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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:46 → 13:3011:250 min11:2548 min14 May
Chicago18:46 → 16:3012:230 min12:2348 min14 May
Jersey City19:46 → 17:3012:290 min12:2948 min14 May
Port of Spain19:46 → 17:3011:380 min11:3848 min14 May
London00:46 → 22:3012:330 min12:3348 min14 May
Durban01:46 → 23:3011:280 min11:2848 min14 May
Dubai03:46 → 01:3011:510 min11:5148 min14 May
Delhi05:16 → 03:0011:530 min11:5348 min14 May
Kolkata05:16 → 03:0011:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore07:06 → 04:5011:570 min11:5748 min14 May
Sydney09:46 → 07:3011:270 min11:2748 min14 May
Suva11:46 → 09:3011:380 min11:3841 min14 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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