Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 1981

Friday 8 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 462 minutes.

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 7 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 8 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 22:29 on Thu 7 May to 20:21 on Fri 8 May.

    1981-05-07T14:29:22Z → 1981-05-08T12:20:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 7th, 11:51–12:39 on the 8th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 7th and 48 of 48 on the 8th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27702 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1981: Friday 8 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 1981 falls on Friday 8 May. Pañcamī runs from 22:29 on Thu 7 May to 20:21 on Fri 8 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1981/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 8 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 8 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 8 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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 7thCoveredMadhyāhna 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:29 → 05:2112:2648 min12:260 min7 May
Chicago09:29 → 07:2112:2348 min12:230 min7 May
Jersey City10:29 → 08:2112:2948 min12:290 min7 May
Port of Spain10:29 → 08:2111:3948 min11:390 min7 May
London15:29 → 13:2112:340 min12:3347 min8 May
Durban16:29 → 14:2111:280 min11:2848 min8 May
Dubai18:29 → 16:2111:510 min11:5148 min8 May
Delhi19:59 → 17:5111:540 min11:5448 min8 May
Kolkata19:59 → 17:5111:090 min11:0948 min8 May
Singapore21:59 → 19:5112:070 min12:0748 min8 May
Sydney00:29 → 22:2111:280 min11:2748 min8 May
Suva02:29 → 00:2111:390 min11:3948 min8 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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