Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1957

Tuesday 29 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 161 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 Tuesday 29 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:37 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:28
05:1305:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:3708:01

111 of 111 minutes covered

Dawn of Wednesday 30 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

Caturdaśī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 00:31 on Tue 29 Jan to 02:55 on Wed 30 Jan.

    1957-01-28T16:31:27Z → 1957-01-29T18:54:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:37–07:28 on the 29th, 05:36–07:27 on the 30th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 111 of 111 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 111 on the 30th.

    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 9681 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1957: Tuesday 29 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1957 falls on Tuesday 29 January. Caturdaśī runs from 00:31 on Tue 29 Jan to 02:55 on Wed 30 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1957/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 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 28thCoveredAruṇodaya 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:31 → 10:5505:050 min05:04108 min29 Jan
Chicago10:31 → 12:5505:140 min05:14113 min29 Jan
Jersey City11:31 → 13:5505:180 min05:18112 min29 Jan
Port of Spain12:31 → 14:5504:510 min04:5199 min29 Jan
London16:31 → 18:5505:450 min05:44120 min29 Jan
Durban18:31 → 20:5503:580 min03:5983 min29 Jan
Dubai20:31 → 22:5505:190 min05:19104 min29 Jan
Delhi22:01 → 00:2505:260 min05:25106 min29 Jan
Kolkata22:01 → 00:2504:340 min04:34103 min29 Jan
Singapore00:01 → 02:2505:100 min05:1196 min29 Jan
Sydney02:31 → 04:5503:510 min03:5281 min29 Jan
Suva04:31 → 06:5504:220 min04:2380 min30 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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