Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1947

Tuesday 21 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 256 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 Monday 20 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:34
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

0 of 113 minutes covered

Dawn of Tuesday 21 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:34
05:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:04

113 of 113 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 11:50 on Mon 20 Jan to 14:22 on Tue 21 Jan.

    1947-01-20T03:50:26Z → 1947-01-21T06:21:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:41–07:34 on the 20th, 05:40–07:34 on the 21st.

    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 113 minutes on the 20th and 113 of 113 on the 21st.

    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 15382 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1947: Tuesday 21 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1947 falls on Tuesday 21 January. Caturdaśī runs from 11:50 on Mon 20 Jan to 14:22 on Tue 21 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1947/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 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 20thCoveredAruṇodaya 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:50 → 22:2205:07110 min05:070 min20 Jan
Chicago21:50 → 00:2205:19115 min05:180 min20 Jan
Jersey City22:50 → 01:2205:22115 min05:220 min20 Jan
Port of Spain23:50 → 02:2204:5099 min04:500 min20 Jan
London03:50 → 06:2205:52124 min05:5130 min20 Jan
Durban05:50 → 08:2203:520 min03:5382 min21 Jan
Dubai07:50 → 10:2205:200 min05:20106 min21 Jan
Delhi09:20 → 11:5205:270 min05:27107 min21 Jan
Kolkata09:20 → 11:5204:350 min04:35104 min21 Jan
Singapore11:20 → 13:5205:080 min05:0996 min21 Jan
Sydney13:50 → 16:2203:450 min03:4580 min21 Jan
Suva15:50 → 18:2204:180 min04:1888 min21 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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