Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā · 1985

Tuesday 23 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 503 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Monday 22 April

Tṛtīyā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:33 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:02
05:0905:5706:4507:3308:2109:0909:57

0 of 269 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 23 April

Taken. The only forenoon Tṛtīyā reaches.

05:32 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:02
05:0805:5606:4407:3208:2009:0809:56

270 of 270 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 18:26 on Mon 22 Apr to 20:39 on Tue 23 Apr.

    1985-04-22T10:25:43Z → 1985-04-23T12:38:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:33–10:02 on the 22nd, 05:32–10:02 on the 23rd.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 269 minutes on the 22nd and 270 of 270 on the 23rd.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 30203 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 1985: Tuesday 23 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā 1985 falls on Tuesday 23 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 18:26 on Mon 22 Apr to 20:39 on Tue 23 Apr and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1985/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 23 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 23 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 23 Apr
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/akshaya-tritiya · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Tṛtīyā
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
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 row calls the day special with Rohiṇī nakṣatra and a Wednesday; neither is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāSunrise 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:26 → 04:3905:14265 min05:130 min22 Apr
Chicago04:26 → 06:3905:00273 min04:58100 min23 Apr
Jersey City05:26 → 07:3905:07254 min05:06153 min23 Apr
Port of Spain06:26 → 08:3905:52215 min05:52167 min23 Apr
London11:26 → 13:3905:510 min05:49287 min23 Apr
Durban12:26 → 14:3906:190 min06:20223 min23 Apr
Dubai14:26 → 16:3905:510 min05:50258 min23 Apr
Delhi15:56 → 18:0905:490 min05:48261 min23 Apr
Kolkata15:56 → 18:0905:110 min05:10256 min23 Apr
Singapore18:26 → 20:3906:590 min06:59243 min23 Apr
Sydney20:26 → 22:3906:230 min06:24220 min23 Apr
Suva22:26 → 00:3906:180 min06:18231 min23 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
akshaya-tritiya@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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