Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1938

Sunday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 578 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 30 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:27
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

111 of 111 minutes covered

Dawn of Monday 31 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:27
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

0 of 111 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 17:55 on Sat 29 Jan to 19:58 on Sun 30 Jan.

    1938-01-29T09:54:57Z → 1938-01-30T11:58:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:36–07:27 on the 30th, 05:36–07:27 on the 31st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 111 of 111 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 111 on the 31st.

    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 34664 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1938: Sunday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1938 falls on Sunday 30 January. Caturdaśī runs from 17:55 on Sat 29 Jan to 19:58 on Sun 30 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1938/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 30 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 29thCoveredAruṇodaya 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:55 → 03:5805:04109 min05:040 min29 Jan
Chicago03:55 → 05:5805:14113 min05:1345 min29 Jan
Jersey City04:55 → 06:5805:18112 min05:17101 min29 Jan
Port of Spain05:55 → 07:5804:5135 min04:5199 min30 Jan
London09:55 → 11:5805:440 min05:43120 min30 Jan
Durban11:55 → 13:5803:580 min03:5984 min30 Jan
Dubai13:55 → 15:5805:190 min05:19104 min30 Jan
Delhi15:25 → 17:2805:260 min05:25106 min30 Jan
Kolkata15:25 → 17:2804:340 min04:34103 min30 Jan
Singapore17:15 → 19:1805:000 min05:0196 min30 Jan
Sydney19:55 → 21:5803:520 min03:5381 min30 Jan
Suva21:55 → 23:5804:230 min04:2389 min30 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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