Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1961

Saturday 21 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 74 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 Friday 20 January

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:05  12:53 madhyāhna ends
11:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:1713:41

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 21 January

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:06  12:54 madhyāhna ends
11:1811:4212:0612:3012:5413:1813:42

48 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 16:11 on Fri 20 Jan to 14:08 on Sat 21 Jan.

    1961-01-20T08:10:57Z → 1961-01-21T06:07:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:05–12:53 on the 20th, 12:06–12:54 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 20th and 48 of 48 on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 4434 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1961: Saturday 21 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1961 falls on Saturday 21 January. Pañcamī runs from 16:11 on Fri 20 Jan to 14:08 on Sat 21 Jan and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1961/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 21 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 21 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 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/vasanta-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 20thCoveredMadhyāhna 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:11 → 22:0811:4048 min11:410 min20 Jan
Chicago02:11 → 00:0811:3848 min11:380 min20 Jan
Jersey City03:11 → 01:0811:4448 min11:440 min20 Jan
Port of Spain04:11 → 02:0811:5348 min11:540 min20 Jan
London08:11 → 06:0811:4848 min11:480 min20 Jan
Durban10:11 → 08:0811:4348 min11:430 min20 Jan
Dubai12:11 → 10:0812:0643 min12:060 min20 Jan
Delhi13:41 → 11:3812:080 min12:090 min21 Jan
Kolkata13:41 → 11:3811:240 min11:2414 min21 Jan
Singapore15:41 → 13:3812:220 min12:2248 min21 Jan
Sydney18:11 → 16:0811:420 min11:4248 min21 Jan
Suva20:11 → 18:0811:530 min11:5348 min21 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasanta-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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