Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1990

Thursday 25 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 117 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 Thursday 25 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:39 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:31
05:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

112 of 112 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 26 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

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

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 03:28 on Thu 25 Jan to 03:41 on Fri 26 Jan.

    1990-01-24T19:28:10Z → 1990-01-25T19:40:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:39–07:31 on the 25th, 05:38–07:30 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 0 of 112 on the 26th.

    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 7044 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1990: Thursday 25 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1990 falls on Thursday 25 January. Caturdaśī runs from 03:28 on Thu 25 Jan to 03:41 on Fri 26 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1990/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 25 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 25 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 25 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 24thCoveredAruṇodaya 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:28 → 11:4105:060 min05:06109 min25 Jan
Chicago13:28 → 13:4105:160 min05:16114 min25 Jan
Jersey City14:28 → 14:4105:200 min05:20113 min25 Jan
Port of Spain15:28 → 15:4104:510 min04:5199 min25 Jan
London19:28 → 19:4105:480 min05:48122 min25 Jan
Durban21:28 → 21:4103:550 min03:5683 min25 Jan
Dubai23:28 → 23:4105:200 min05:19105 min25 Jan
Delhi00:58 → 01:1105:270 min05:26107 min25 Jan
Kolkata00:58 → 01:1104:340 min04:34104 min25 Jan
Singapore03:28 → 03:4105:390 min05:4096 min25 Jan
Sydney06:28 → 06:4104:480 min04:490 min26 Jan
Suva07:28 → 07:4104:200 min04:210 min26 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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