Ruling · Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) · 2002

Saturday 25 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 90 minutes.

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Friday 24 May

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:31 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:46
19:0719:3119:5520:1920:4321:0721:31

0 of 76 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 25 May

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:47
19:0819:3219:5620:2020:4421:0821:32

76 of 76 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 01:00 on Sat 25 May to 22:17 on Sat 25 May.

    2002-05-24T17:00:18Z → 2002-05-25T14:16:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:31–20:46 on the 24th, 19:32–20:47 on the 25th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 76 minutes on the 24th and 76 of 76 on the 25th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 5389 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2002: Saturday 25 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) 2002 falls on Saturday 25 May. Caturdaśī runs from 01:00 on Sat 25 May to 22:17 on Sat 25 May and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2002/nrisimha-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 25 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 25 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 25 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/nrisimha-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 14 Nrsimha caturdasi (pradosa vyapini — if it occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed, special when combined with naksatra 'Svati', yoga 'Siddhi' and 'Saturday').” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102. The row calls the day special with Svātī nakṣatra, Siddhi yoga and a Saturday; none is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 24thCoveredSunset 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:00 → 07:1719:5479 min19:550 min24 May
Chicago12:00 → 09:1720:1273 min20:130 min24 May
Jersey City13:00 → 10:1720:1574 min20:150 min24 May
Port of Spain13:00 → 10:1718:2391 min18:230 min24 May
London18:00 → 15:1720:5864 min20:590 min24 May
Durban19:00 → 16:1717:060 min17:060 min24 May
Dubai21:00 → 18:1719:000 min19:010 min24 May
Delhi22:30 → 19:4719:100 min19:1037 min25 May
Kolkata22:30 → 19:4718:130 min18:1485 min25 May
Singapore01:00 → 22:1719:070 min19:0795 min25 May
Sydney03:00 → 00:1716:570 min16:57111 min25 May
Suva05:00 → 02:1717:380 min17:38103 min25 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
nrisimha-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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