Ruling · Paraśurāma Jayantī · 1978

Tuesday 9 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 114 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Tuesday 9 May

Taken. The only evening Tṛtīyā reaches.

19:17 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:36
18:5319:1719:4120:0520:2920:5321:17

79 of 79 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 10 May

Tṛtīyā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:18 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:37
18:5419:1819:4220:0620:3020:5421:18

0 of 79 minutes covered

Tṛtīyā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 15:29 on Tue 9 May to 17:24 on Wed 10 May.

    1978-05-09T07:28:38Z → 1978-05-10T09:24:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:17–20:36 on the 9th, 19:18–20:37 on the 10th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 79 of 79 minutes on the 9th and 0 of 79 on the 10th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 6825 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Paraśurāma Jayantī, Baoding, 1978: Tuesday 9 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Paraśurāma Jayantī 1978 falls on Tuesday 9 May. Tṛtīyā runs from 15:29 on Tue 9 May to 17:24 on Wed 10 May and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1978/parashurama-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 9 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 9 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 9 May
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/parashurama-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Tṛtīyā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 3 Aksaya trtiya (purvahna vyapini, paraviddha) (Special when combined with Rohini naksatra and Wednesday), Candanayatra, Parasurama jayanti (pradosavyapini — if occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāSunset 9thCoveredSunset 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:29 → 02:2419:4382 min19:430 min9 May
Chicago02:29 → 04:2419:5777 min19:580 min9 May
Jersey City03:29 → 05:2420:0078 min20:010 min9 May
Port of Spain03:29 → 05:2418:1991 min18:200 min9 May
London08:29 → 10:2420:3670 min20:370 min9 May
Durban09:29 → 11:2417:15106 min17:140 min9 May
Dubai11:29 → 13:2418:5286 min18:530 min9 May
Delhi12:59 → 14:5419:0184 min19:010 min9 May
Kolkata12:59 → 14:5418:0687 min18:070 min9 May
Singapore14:59 → 16:5418:3695 min18:360 min9 May
Sydney17:29 → 19:2417:0787 min17:07108 min10 May
Suva19:29 → 21:2417:430 min17:42101 min10 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
parashurama-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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