Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1979

Saturday 27 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 472 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 27 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:30
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

112 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 28 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:37 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:29
05:1305:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:3708:01

0 of 112 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 21:46 on Fri 26 Jan to 18:08 on Sat 27 Jan.

    1979-01-26T13:46:18Z → 1979-01-27T10:08:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:30 on the 27th, 05:37–07:29 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 112 of 112 minutes on the 27th and 0 of 112 on the 28th.

    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 28290 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1979: Saturday 27 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1979 falls on Saturday 27 January. Caturdaśī runs from 21:46 on Fri 26 Jan to 18:08 on Sat 27 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 27 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 27 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 27 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 26thCoveredAruṇodaya 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:46 → 02:0805:0568 min05:050 min26 Jan
Chicago07:46 → 04:0805:160 min05:150 min26 Jan
Jersey City08:46 → 05:0805:190 min05:190 min26 Jan
Port of Spain09:46 → 06:0804:510 min04:5177 min27 Jan
London13:46 → 10:0805:470 min05:46121 min27 Jan
Durban15:46 → 12:0803:560 min03:5783 min27 Jan
Dubai17:46 → 14:0805:190 min05:19105 min27 Jan
Delhi19:16 → 15:3805:260 min05:26106 min27 Jan
Kolkata19:16 → 15:3804:340 min04:34104 min27 Jan
Singapore21:16 → 17:3805:100 min05:1096 min27 Jan
Sydney00:46 → 21:0804:490 min04:5081 min27 Jan
Suva01:46 → 22:0804:210 min04:2288 min27 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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