Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1937

Wednesday 10 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 562 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 9 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:30 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:18
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

0 of 108 minutes covered

Dawn of Wednesday 10 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:29 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:17
05:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:29

108 of 108 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 17:05 on Tue 9 Feb to 16:39 on Wed 10 Feb.

    1937-02-09T09:05:14Z → 1937-02-10T08:38:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:30–07:18 on the 9th, 05:29–07:17 on the 10th.

    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 108 minutes on the 9th and 108 of 108 on the 10th.

    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 33713 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1937: Wednesday 10 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1937 falls on Wednesday 10 February. Caturdaśī runs from 17:05 on Tue 9 Feb to 16:39 on Wed 10 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1937/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 10 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 10 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 10 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 9thCoveredAruṇodaya 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:05 → 00:3904:58106 min04:580 min9 Feb
Chicago03:05 → 02:3905:05109 min05:050 min9 Feb
Jersey City04:05 → 03:3905:10109 min05:090 min9 Feb
Port of Spain05:05 → 04:3904:5083 min04:500 min9 Feb
London09:05 → 08:3905:310 min05:30115 min10 Feb
Durban11:05 → 10:3904:060 min04:0686 min10 Feb
Dubai13:05 → 12:3905:150 min05:15103 min10 Feb
Delhi14:35 → 14:0905:210 min05:21104 min10 Feb
Kolkata14:35 → 14:0904:310 min04:30102 min10 Feb
Singapore16:25 → 15:5905:020 min05:0296 min10 Feb
Sydney19:05 → 18:3904:000 min04:0184 min10 Feb
Suva21:05 → 20:3904:270 min04:2890 min10 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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