Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā · 2011

Friday 6 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 469 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Thursday 5 May

Tṛtīyā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:17 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:56
04:5305:4106:2907:1708:0508:5309:4110:29

0 of 279 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 6 May

Taken. The only forenoon Tṛtīyā reaches.

05:16 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:55
04:5205:4006:2807:1608:0408:5209:4010:28

280 of 280 minutes covered

Tṛtīyā presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 17:45 on Thu 5 May to 18:37 on Fri 6 May.

    2011-05-05T09:44:49Z → 2011-05-06T10:37:23Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:17–09:56 on the 5th, 05:16–09:55 on the 6th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 279 minutes on the 5th and 280 of 280 on the 6th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 28141 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 2011: Friday 6 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā 2011 falls on Friday 6 May. Tṛtīyā runs from 17:45 on Thu 5 May to 18:37 on Fri 6 May and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2011/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 6 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 6 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 6 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/akshaya-tritiya · ruleset 2026.3-draft

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

“S 3 Aksaya trtiya (purvahna vyapini, paraviddha) (Special when combined with Rohini naksatra and Wednesday), Candanayatra, Parasurama jayanti (pradosavyapini — if occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102. The row calls the day special with Rohiṇī nakṣatra and a Wednesday; neither is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāSunrise 5thCoveredSunrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:45 → 03:3706:00273 min05:590 min5 May
Chicago04:45 → 05:3705:42284 min05:410 min5 May
Jersey City05:45 → 06:3705:51282 min05:4948 min6 May
Port of Spain05:45 → 06:3705:47251 min05:4751 min6 May
London10:45 → 11:3705:260 min05:24302 min6 May
Durban11:45 → 12:3706:270 min06:28216 min6 May
Dubai13:45 → 14:3705:410 min05:40264 min6 May
Delhi15:15 → 16:0705:380 min05:37267 min6 May
Kolkata15:15 → 16:0705:020 min05:02261 min6 May
Singapore17:45 → 18:3706:570 min06:57243 min6 May
Sydney19:45 → 20:3706:330 min06:33212 min6 May
Suva21:45 → 22:3706:210 min06:22228 min6 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
akshaya-tritiya@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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