Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1968

Sunday 28 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 105 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 Sunday 28 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:29
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

112 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Monday 29 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

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

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 03:53 on Sun 28 Jan to 02:00 on Mon 29 Jan.

    1968-01-27T19:52:33Z → 1968-01-28T17:59:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:29 on the 28th, 05:37–07:28 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 112 of 112 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 111 on the 29th.

    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 6298 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1968: Sunday 28 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1968 falls on Sunday 28 January. Caturdaśī runs from 03:53 on Sun 28 Jan to 02:00 on Mon 29 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1968/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 28 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 28 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 28 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 27thCoveredAruṇodaya 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:53 → 10:0005:050 min05:05109 min28 Jan
Chicago13:53 → 12:0005:150 min05:15113 min28 Jan
Jersey City14:53 → 13:0005:190 min05:18113 min28 Jan
Port of Spain15:53 → 14:0004:510 min04:5199 min28 Jan
London19:53 → 18:0005:460 min05:46121 min28 Jan
Durban21:53 → 20:0003:570 min03:5783 min28 Jan
Dubai23:53 → 22:0005:190 min05:19105 min28 Jan
Delhi01:23 → 23:3005:260 min05:26106 min28 Jan
Kolkata01:23 → 23:3004:340 min04:34104 min28 Jan
Singapore03:23 → 01:3005:100 min05:1096 min28 Jan
Sydney05:53 → 04:0003:500 min03:510 min29 Jan
Suva07:53 → 06:0004:210 min04:220 min29 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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