Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1971

Tuesday 26 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 142 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 Monday 25 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

0 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Tuesday 26 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:30
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

112 of 112 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 12:26 on Mon 25 Jan to 09:53 on Tue 26 Jan.

    1971-01-25T04:26:11Z → 1971-01-26T01:52:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:31 on the 25th, 05:38–07:30 on the 26th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 112 minutes on the 25th and 112 of 112 on the 26th.

    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 8545 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1971: Tuesday 26 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1971 falls on Tuesday 26 January. Caturdaśī runs from 12:26 on Mon 25 Jan to 09:53 on Tue 26 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1971/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 26 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 26 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 26 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 25thCoveredAruṇodaya 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:26 → 17:5305:06109 min05:050 min25 Jan
Chicago22:26 → 19:5305:16114 min05:160 min25 Jan
Jersey City23:26 → 20:5305:20113 min05:190 min25 Jan
Port of Spain00:26 → 21:5304:5199 min04:510 min25 Jan
London05:26 → 02:5306:48122 min06:470 min25 Jan
Durban06:26 → 03:5303:560 min03:560 min25 Jan
Dubai08:26 → 05:5305:200 min05:1933 min26 Jan
Delhi09:56 → 07:2305:260 min05:26107 min26 Jan
Kolkata09:56 → 07:2304:340 min04:34104 min26 Jan
Singapore11:56 → 09:2305:100 min05:1096 min26 Jan
Sydney14:26 → 11:5303:490 min03:4981 min26 Jan
Suva16:26 → 13:5304:210 min04:2188 min26 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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