Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā · 2012

Tuesday 24 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 382 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 Tuesday 24 April

Taken. The only forenoon Tṛtīyā reaches.

05:30 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:01
05:0605:5406:4207:3008:1809:0609:54

271 of 271 minutes covered

Forenoon of Wednesday 25 April

Tṛtīyā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:28 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:00
05:0405:5206:4007:2808:1609:0409:52

0 of 272 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 20:31 on Mon 23 Apr to 23:06 on Tue 24 Apr.

    2012-04-23T12:30:43Z → 2012-04-24T15:06:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:30–10:01 on the 24th, 05:28–10:00 on the 25th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 271 of 271 minutes on the 24th and 0 of 272 on the 25th.

    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 22918 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 2012: Tuesday 24 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā 2012 falls on Tuesday 24 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 20:31 on Mon 23 Apr to 23:06 on Tue 24 Apr and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2012/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 24 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 24 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 24 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/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 23rdCoveredSunrise 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:31 → 08:0606:12266 min06:11115 min24 Apr
Chicago07:31 → 10:0605:58181 min05:56250 min24 Apr
Jersey City08:31 → 11:0606:05128 min06:04274 min24 Apr
Port of Spain08:31 → 11:0605:5189 min05:51249 min24 Apr
London13:31 → 16:0605:480 min05:46289 min24 Apr
Durban14:31 → 17:0606:200 min06:21222 min24 Apr
Dubai16:31 → 19:0605:490 min05:49259 min24 Apr
Delhi18:01 → 20:3605:480 min05:47262 min24 Apr
Kolkata18:01 → 20:3605:100 min05:09257 min24 Apr
Singapore20:31 → 23:0606:590 min06:58243 min24 Apr
Sydney22:31 → 01:0606:240 min06:25219 min24 Apr
Suva00:31 → 03:0606:180 min06:18231 min24 Apr
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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