Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 1967

Sunday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 492 minutes.

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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 Sunday 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 Monday 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 03:39 on Sun 14 May to 03:38 on Mon 15 May.

    1967-05-13T19:39:11Z → 1967-05-14T19:37:56Z

  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 29491 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1967: Sunday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 1967 falls on Sunday 14 May. Pañcamī runs from 03:39 on Sun 14 May to 03:38 on Mon 15 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1967/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:39 → 12:3812:2534 min12:2512 min13 May
Chicago14:39 → 14:3812:230 min12:2348 min14 May
Jersey City15:39 → 15:3812:290 min12:2948 min14 May
Port of Spain15:39 → 15:3811:380 min11:3848 min14 May
London20:39 → 20:3812:330 min12:3348 min14 May
Durban21:39 → 21:3811:280 min11:2848 min14 May
Dubai23:39 → 23:3811:510 min11:5148 min14 May
Delhi01:09 → 01:0811:540 min11:5448 min14 May
Kolkata01:09 → 01:0811:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore03:09 → 03:0812:070 min12:0748 min14 May
Sydney05:39 → 05:3811:270 min11:2748 min14 May
Suva07:39 → 07:3811:380 min11:3848 min14 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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