Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2001

Saturday 28 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 318 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 Friday 27 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Saturday 28 April

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

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 19:36 on Fri 27 Apr to 17:58 on Sat 28 Apr.

    2001-04-27T11:36:17Z → 2001-04-28T09:58:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 27th, 11:52–12:40 on the 28th.

    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 27th and 48 of 48 on the 28th.

    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 19104 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2001: Saturday 28 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2001 falls on Saturday 28 April. Pañcamī runs from 19:36 on Fri 27 Apr to 17:58 on Sat 28 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2001/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 28 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 28 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 28 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/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 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:36 → 02:5812:2748 min12:270 min27 Apr
Chicago06:36 → 04:5812:2548 min12:240 min27 Apr
Jersey City07:36 → 05:5812:3048 min12:300 min27 Apr
Port of Spain07:36 → 05:5811:4048 min11:400 min27 Apr
London12:36 → 10:5812:3546 min12:350 min27 Apr
Durban13:36 → 11:5811:290 min11:2929 min28 Apr
Dubai15:36 → 13:5811:530 min11:5248 min28 Apr
Delhi17:06 → 15:2811:550 min11:5548 min28 Apr
Kolkata17:06 → 15:2811:100 min11:1048 min28 Apr
Singapore19:36 → 17:5812:380 min12:3848 min28 Apr
Sydney21:36 → 19:5811:290 min11:2848 min28 Apr
Suva23:36 → 21:5811:400 min11:4048 min28 Apr
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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