Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1966

Thursday 20 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 489 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 20 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

Dawn of Friday 21 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:40 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:33
05:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:04

0 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 19:30 on Wed 19 Jan to 21:31 on Thu 20 Jan.

    1966-01-19T11:30:01Z → 1966-01-20T13:31:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:40–07:34 on the 20th, 05:40–07:33 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 113 of 113 minutes on the 20th and 0 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 29340 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1966: Thursday 20 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1966 falls on Thursday 20 January. Caturdaśī runs from 19:30 on Wed 19 Jan to 21:31 on Thu 20 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1966/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 20 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 20 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 20 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 19thCoveredAruṇodaya 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:30 → 05:3105:07110 min05:0724 min19 Jan
Chicago05:30 → 07:3105:19104 min05:18115 min20 Jan
Jersey City06:30 → 08:3105:2247 min05:22115 min20 Jan
Port of Spain07:30 → 09:3104:500 min04:5099 min20 Jan
London11:30 → 13:3105:520 min05:52124 min20 Jan
Durban13:30 → 15:3103:510 min03:5282 min20 Jan
Dubai15:30 → 17:3105:200 min05:20106 min20 Jan
Delhi17:00 → 19:0105:270 min05:27107 min20 Jan
Kolkata17:00 → 19:0104:350 min04:35104 min20 Jan
Singapore19:00 → 21:0105:080 min05:0896 min20 Jan
Sydney21:30 → 23:3103:440 min03:4580 min20 Jan
Suva23:30 → 01:3104:180 min04:1888 min20 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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