Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1976

Friday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 376 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 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

Dawn of Friday 30 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:27
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

111 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 13:44 on Thu 29 Jan to 13:50 on Fri 30 Jan.

    1976-01-29T05:44:24Z → 1976-01-30T05:49:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:37–07:28 on the 29th, 05:36–07:27 on the 30th.

    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 111 minutes on the 29th and 111 of 111 on the 30th.

    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 22567 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1976: Friday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1976 falls on Friday 30 January. Caturdaśī runs from 13:44 on Thu 29 Jan to 13:50 on Fri 30 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 30 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 29thCoveredAruṇodaya 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:44 → 21:5005:04109 min05:040 min29 Jan
Chicago23:44 → 23:5005:14113 min05:130 min29 Jan
Jersey City00:44 → 00:5005:18112 min05:170 min29 Jan
Port of Spain01:44 → 01:5004:5199 min04:510 min29 Jan
London05:44 → 05:5005:44121 min05:437 min29 Jan
Durban07:44 → 07:5003:580 min03:5984 min30 Jan
Dubai09:44 → 09:5005:190 min05:19104 min30 Jan
Delhi11:14 → 11:2005:260 min05:25106 min30 Jan
Kolkata11:14 → 11:2004:340 min04:34103 min30 Jan
Singapore13:14 → 13:2005:100 min05:1196 min30 Jan
Sydney16:44 → 16:5004:520 min04:5281 min30 Jan
Suva17:44 → 17:5004:220 min04:2389 min30 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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