Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2014

Thursday 30 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 125 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 Wednesday 29 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:28
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

0 of 111 minutes covered

Dawn of Thursday 30 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:27
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

111 of 111 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 13:20 on Wed 29 Jan to 09:32 on Thu 30 Jan.

    2014-01-29T05:19:45Z → 2014-01-30T01:31:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:36–07:28 on the 29th, 05:36–07:27 on the 30th.

    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 111 minutes on the 29th and 111 of 111 on the 30th.

    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 7502 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2014: Thursday 30 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2014 falls on Thursday 30 January. Caturdaśī runs from 13:20 on Wed 29 Jan to 09:32 on Thu 30 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2014/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 30 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 30 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 30 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 29thCoveredAruṇodaya 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:20 → 17:3205:04108 min05:030 min29 Jan
Chicago23:20 → 19:3205:13113 min05:130 min29 Jan
Jersey City00:20 → 20:3205:17112 min05:170 min29 Jan
Port of Spain01:20 → 21:3204:5199 min04:510 min29 Jan
London05:20 → 01:3205:44120 min05:430 min29 Jan
Durban07:20 → 03:3203:590 min03:590 min29 Jan
Dubai09:20 → 05:3205:190 min05:1813 min30 Jan
Delhi10:50 → 07:0205:250 min05:2597 min30 Jan
Kolkata10:50 → 07:0204:340 min04:33103 min30 Jan
Singapore13:20 → 09:3205:400 min05:4196 min30 Jan
Sydney16:20 → 12:3204:520 min04:5382 min30 Jan
Suva17:20 → 13:3204:230 min04:2389 min30 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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