Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā · 2015

Tuesday 21 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 482 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 21 April

Taken. The only forenoon Tṛtīyā reaches.

05:35 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:03
05:1105:5906:4707:3508:2309:1109:59

268 of 268 minutes covered

Forenoon of Wednesday 22 April

Tṛtīyā is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:33 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:03
05:0905:5706:4507:3308:2109:0909:57

0 of 269 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 21:33 on Mon 20 Apr to 19:36 on Tue 21 Apr.

    2015-04-20T13:32:36Z → 2015-04-21T11:35:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:35–10:03 on the 21st, 05:33–10:03 on the 22nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 268 of 268 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 269 on the 22nd.

    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 28924 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 2015: Tuesday 21 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā 2015 falls on Tuesday 21 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 21:33 on Mon 20 Apr to 19:36 on Tue 21 Apr and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2015/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 21 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 20thCoveredSunrise 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:33 → 04:3606:16248 min06:150 min20 Apr
Chicago08:33 → 06:3606:03122 min06:0234 min21 Apr
Jersey City09:33 → 07:3606:1168 min06:0986 min21 Apr
Port of Spain09:33 → 07:3605:5328 min05:53103 min21 Apr
London14:33 → 12:3605:550 min05:53284 min21 Apr
Durban15:33 → 13:3606:180 min06:18224 min21 Apr
Dubai17:33 → 15:3605:530 min05:52257 min21 Apr
Delhi19:03 → 17:0605:510 min05:50260 min21 Apr
Kolkata19:03 → 17:0605:130 min05:12256 min21 Apr
Singapore21:33 → 19:3606:590 min06:59243 min21 Apr
Sydney23:33 → 21:3606:210 min06:22221 min21 Apr
Suva01:33 → 23:3606:170 min06:17232 min21 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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