Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1973

Friday 2 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 466 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 1 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:35 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:25
05:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

0 of 110 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 2 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:34 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:24
05:1005:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

110 of 110 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 15:11 on Thu 1 Feb to 16:34 on Fri 2 Feb.

    1973-02-01T07:11:20Z → 1973-02-02T08:33:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:35–07:25 on the 1st, 05:34–07:24 on the 2nd.

    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 110 minutes on the 1st and 110 of 110 on the 2nd.

    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 27967 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1973: Friday 2 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1973 falls on Friday 2 February. Caturdaśī runs from 15:11 on Thu 1 Feb to 16:34 on Fri 2 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1973/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 2 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 2 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 2 Feb
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 1stCoveredAruṇodaya 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:11 → 00:3405:03108 min05:020 min1 Feb
Chicago01:11 → 02:3405:12112 min05:110 min1 Feb
Jersey City02:11 → 03:3405:16111 min05:150 min1 Feb
Port of Spain03:11 → 04:3404:5199 min04:510 min1 Feb
London07:11 → 08:3405:4128 min05:40118 min2 Feb
Durban09:11 → 10:3404:010 min04:0184 min2 Feb
Dubai11:11 → 12:3405:180 min05:18104 min2 Feb
Delhi12:41 → 14:0405:240 min05:24105 min2 Feb
Kolkata12:41 → 14:0404:330 min04:33103 min2 Feb
Singapore14:41 → 16:0405:110 min05:1196 min2 Feb
Sydney18:11 → 19:3404:550 min04:5582 min2 Feb
Suva19:11 → 20:3404:240 min04:2589 min2 Feb
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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