Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 1998

Tuesday 27 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 530 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 Monday 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

Dawn of Tuesday 27 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:38 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:29
05:1405:3806:0206:2606:5007:1407:3808:02

112 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 18:09 on Mon 26 Jan to 16:19 on Tue 27 Jan.

    1998-01-26T10:09:25Z → 1998-01-27T08:19:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:38–07:30 on the 26th, 05:38–07:29 on the 27th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 112 minutes on the 26th and 112 of 112 on the 27th.

    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 31812 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 1998: Tuesday 27 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 1998 falls on Tuesday 27 January. Caturdaśī runs from 18:09 on Mon 26 Jan to 16:19 on Tue 27 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1998/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 27 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 27 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 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 Angeles02:09 → 00:1905:05109 min05:050 min26 Jan
Chicago04:09 → 02:1905:15114 min05:150 min26 Jan
Jersey City05:09 → 03:1905:19113 min05:190 min26 Jan
Port of Spain06:09 → 04:1904:5120 min04:510 min26 Jan
London10:09 → 08:1905:470 min05:46121 min27 Jan
Durban12:09 → 10:1903:560 min03:5783 min27 Jan
Dubai14:09 → 12:1905:190 min05:19105 min27 Jan
Delhi15:39 → 13:4905:260 min05:26106 min27 Jan
Kolkata15:39 → 13:4904:340 min04:34104 min27 Jan
Singapore18:09 → 16:1905:400 min05:4096 min27 Jan
Sydney21:09 → 19:1904:500 min04:5081 min27 Jan
Suva22:09 → 20:1904:210 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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