Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1939

Thursday 19 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 533 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 Wednesday 18 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:35
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

0 of 114 minutes covered

Dawn of Thursday 19 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:35
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

114 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 16:28 on Wed 18 Jan to 18:55 on Thu 19 Jan.

    1939-01-18T08:27:45Z → 1939-01-19T10:54:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:41–07:35 on the 18th, 05:41–07:35 on the 19th.

    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 114 minutes on the 18th and 114 of 114 on the 19th.

    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 31965 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1939: Thursday 19 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1939 falls on Thursday 19 January. Caturdaśī runs from 16:28 on Wed 18 Jan to 18:55 on Thu 19 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1939/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 19 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 19 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 19 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 18thCoveredAruṇodaya 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:28 → 02:5505:07111 min05:070 min18 Jan
Chicago02:28 → 04:5505:19116 min05:190 min18 Jan
Jersey City03:28 → 05:5505:23115 min05:2232 min18 Jan
Port of Spain04:28 → 06:5504:5099 min04:5099 min18 Jan
London08:28 → 10:5505:530 min05:53124 min19 Jan
Durban10:28 → 12:5503:500 min03:5182 min19 Jan
Dubai12:28 → 14:5505:200 min05:20106 min19 Jan
Delhi13:58 → 16:2505:270 min05:27108 min19 Jan
Kolkata13:58 → 16:2504:350 min04:35105 min19 Jan
Singapore15:48 → 18:1504:580 min04:5896 min19 Jan
Sydney18:28 → 20:5503:430 min03:4479 min19 Jan
Suva20:28 → 22:5504:170 min04:1788 min19 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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