Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 1986

Wednesday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 202 minutes.

Decide it for

BaodingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Tuesday 13 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:51  13:39 madhyāhna ends
12:0312:2712:5113:1513:3914:0314:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:51  13:39 madhyāhna ends
12:0312:2712:5113:1513:3914:0314:27

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 17:00 on Tue 13 May to 19:04 on Wed 14 May.

    1986-05-13T08:00:29Z → 1986-05-14T10:03:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:51–13:39 on the 13th, 12:51–13:39 on the 14th.

    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 13th and 48 of 48 on the 14th.

    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 12105 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 1986: Wednesday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 1986 falls on Wednesday 14 May. Pañcamī runs from 17:00 on Tue 13 May to 19:04 on Wed 14 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1986/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 14 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 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:00 → 03:0412:2548 min12:250 min13 May
Chicago03:00 → 05:0412:2348 min12:230 min13 May
Jersey City04:00 → 06:0412:2948 min12:290 min13 May
Port of Spain04:00 → 06:0411:3848 min11:380 min13 May
London09:00 → 11:0412:3348 min12:330 min13 May
Durban10:00 → 12:0411:2848 min11:2836 min13 May
Dubai12:00 → 14:0411:5139 min11:5148 min14 May
Delhi13:30 → 15:3411:540 min11:5448 min14 May
Kolkata13:30 → 15:3411:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore16:00 → 18:0412:370 min12:3748 min14 May
Sydney18:00 → 20:0411:270 min11:2748 min14 May
Suva20:00 → 22:0411:390 min11:3948 min14 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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