Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1946

Friday 1 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 302 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 Thursday 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

Dawn of Friday 1 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:35 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:26
05:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

110 of 110 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 12:28 on Thu 31 Jan to 12:54 on Fri 1 Feb.

    1946-01-31T04:28:29Z → 1946-02-01T04:54:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:36–07:27 on the 31st, 05:35–07:26 on the 1st.

    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 111 minutes on the 31st and 110 of 110 on the 1st.

    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 18117 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1946: Friday 1 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1946 falls on Friday 1 February. Caturdaśī runs from 12:28 on Thu 31 Jan to 12:54 on Fri 1 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1946/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 1 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 1 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 1 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 31stCoveredAruṇodaya 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:28 → 20:5405:03108 min05:030 min31 Jan
Chicago22:28 → 22:5405:13112 min05:120 min31 Jan
Jersey City23:28 → 23:5405:17112 min05:160 min31 Jan
Port of Spain00:28 → 00:5404:5199 min04:510 min31 Jan
London04:28 → 04:5405:42120 min05:410 min31 Jan
Durban06:28 → 06:5404:000 min04:0184 min1 Feb
Dubai08:28 → 08:5405:180 min05:18104 min1 Feb
Delhi09:58 → 10:2405:250 min05:25106 min1 Feb
Kolkata09:58 → 10:2404:340 min04:33103 min1 Feb
Singapore11:58 → 12:2405:110 min05:1196 min1 Feb
Sydney14:28 → 14:5403:530 min03:5482 min1 Feb
Suva16:28 → 16:5404:240 min04:2489 min1 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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