Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1949

Friday 28 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 54 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 27 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:29
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

0 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 28 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:37 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:29
05:1305:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:3708:01

111 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 08:23 on Thu 27 Jan to 09:21 on Fri 28 Jan.

    1949-01-27T00:23:22Z → 1949-01-28T01:20:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:29 on the 27th, 05:37–07:29 on the 28th.

    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 112 minutes on the 27th and 111 of 111 on the 28th.

    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 3233 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1949: Friday 28 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1949 falls on Friday 28 January. Caturdaśī runs from 08:23 on Thu 27 Jan to 09:21 on Fri 28 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1949/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 28 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 28 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 28 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 27thCoveredAruṇodaya 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:23 → 17:2105:05109 min05:050 min27 Jan
Chicago18:23 → 19:2105:15113 min05:140 min27 Jan
Jersey City19:23 → 20:2105:19113 min05:180 min27 Jan
Port of Spain20:23 → 21:2104:5199 min04:510 min27 Jan
London00:23 → 01:2105:46121 min05:450 min27 Jan
Durban02:23 → 03:2103:5783 min03:580 min27 Jan
Dubai04:23 → 05:2105:19105 min05:192 min27 Jan
Delhi05:53 → 06:5105:2679 min05:2685 min28 Jan
Kolkata05:53 → 06:5104:3424 min04:34104 min28 Jan
Singapore07:53 → 08:5105:100 min05:1096 min28 Jan
Sydney10:23 → 11:2103:510 min03:5181 min28 Jan
Suva12:23 → 13:2104:220 min04:2288 min28 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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