Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 1956

Monday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 122 minutes.

Decide it for

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Monday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Tuesday 15 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 09:49 on Mon 14 May to 07:03 on Tue 15 May.

    1956-05-14T01:48:47Z → 1956-05-14T23:02:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 14th, 11:51–12:39 on the 15th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 48 on the 15th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7314 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1956: Monday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī 1956 falls on Monday 14 May. Pañcamī runs from 09:49 on Mon 14 May to 07:03 on Tue 15 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 14 May
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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 14thCoveredMadhyāhna 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:49 → 16:0312:2548 min12:250 min14 May
Chicago20:49 → 18:0312:2348 min12:230 min14 May
Jersey City21:49 → 19:0312:2948 min12:290 min14 May
Port of Spain21:49 → 19:0311:3848 min11:380 min14 May
London02:49 → 00:0312:3348 min12:330 min14 May
Durban03:49 → 01:0311:2848 min11:280 min14 May
Dubai05:49 → 03:0311:5148 min11:510 min14 May
Delhi07:19 → 04:3311:5448 min11:540 min14 May
Kolkata07:19 → 04:3311:0948 min11:090 min14 May
Singapore09:19 → 06:3312:0748 min12:070 min14 May
Sydney11:49 → 09:0311:2726 min11:270 min14 May
Suva13:49 → 11:0311:380 min11:380 min15 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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