Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1977

Tuesday 18 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 164 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 Tuesday 18 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:35
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

114 of 114 minutes covered

Dawn of Wednesday 19 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:34
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 02:57 on Tue 18 Jan to 00:26 on Wed 19 Jan.

    1977-01-17T18:56:35Z → 1977-01-18T16:25:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:41–07:35 on the 18th, 05:41–07:34 on the 19th.

    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 18th and 0 of 114 on the 19th.

    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 9855 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1977: Tuesday 18 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1977 falls on Tuesday 18 January. Caturdaśī runs from 02:57 on Tue 18 Jan to 00:26 on Wed 19 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1977/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 18 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 18 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 18 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 17thCoveredAruṇodaya 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:57 → 08:2605:070 min05:07111 min18 Jan
Chicago12:57 → 10:2605:190 min05:19116 min18 Jan
Jersey City13:57 → 11:2605:230 min05:22115 min18 Jan
Port of Spain14:57 → 12:2604:500 min04:5099 min18 Jan
London18:57 → 16:2605:530 min05:53125 min18 Jan
Durban20:57 → 18:2603:500 min03:5182 min18 Jan
Dubai22:57 → 20:2605:200 min05:20106 min18 Jan
Delhi00:27 → 21:5605:270 min05:27108 min18 Jan
Kolkata00:27 → 21:5604:340 min04:34105 min18 Jan
Singapore02:27 → 23:5605:080 min05:0896 min18 Jan
Sydney05:57 → 03:2604:430 min04:436 min18 Jan
Suva06:57 → 04:2604:170 min04:170 min19 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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