Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1972

Saturday 15 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 620 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 Saturday 15 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:42 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:4208:06

114 of 114 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 16 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

0 of 114 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 19:18 on Fri 14 Jan to 19:22 on Sat 15 Jan.

    1972-01-14T11:17:39Z → 1972-01-15T11:21:40Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:42–07:36 on the 15th, 05:41–07:36 on the 16th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 114 of 114 minutes on the 15th and 0 of 114 on the 16th.

    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 37187 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1972: Saturday 15 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1972 falls on Saturday 15 January. Caturdaśī runs from 19:18 on Fri 14 Jan to 19:22 on Sat 15 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1972/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 15 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 15 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 15 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 14thCoveredAruṇodaya 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:18 → 03:2205:08111 min05:080 min14 Jan
Chicago05:18 → 05:2205:20117 min05:202 min14 Jan
Jersey City06:18 → 06:2205:2462 min05:2358 min14 Jan
Port of Spain07:18 → 07:2204:490 min04:49100 min15 Jan
London11:18 → 11:2205:550 min05:55126 min15 Jan
Durban13:18 → 13:2203:470 min03:4881 min15 Jan
Dubai15:18 → 15:2205:200 min05:20106 min15 Jan
Delhi16:48 → 16:5205:270 min05:27108 min15 Jan
Kolkata16:48 → 16:5204:340 min04:34105 min15 Jan
Singapore18:48 → 18:5205:060 min05:0796 min15 Jan
Sydney22:18 → 22:2204:400 min04:4079 min15 Jan
Suva23:18 → 23:2204:140 min04:1587 min15 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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