Ruling · Paraśurāma Jayantī · 2016

Sunday 8 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 15 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 Sunday 8 May

Taken. The only evening Tṛtīyā reaches.

19:17 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:36
Tṛtīyā begins 20:21:18
18:5319:1719:4120:0520:2920:5321:17

15 of 79 minutes covered, the last 15

Evening of Monday 9 May

Tṛtīyā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:18 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:37
18:5419:1819:4220:0620:3020:5421:18

0 of 79 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Tṛtīyā runs from 20:21 on Sun 8 May to 17:22 on Mon 9 May.

    2016-05-08T12:21:19Z → 2016-05-09T09:22:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:17–20:36 on the 8th, 19:18–20:37 on the 9th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 15 of 79 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 79 on the 9th.

    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 901 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Paraśurāma Jayantī, Baoding, 2016: Sunday 8 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Paraśurāma Jayantī 2016 falls on Sunday 8 May. Tṛtīyā runs from 20:21 on Sun 8 May to 17:22 on Mon 9 May and covers 15 of 79 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/parashurama-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 8 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 8 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 8 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/parashurama-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Tṛtīyā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
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 same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceTṛtīyāSunset 8thCoveredSunset 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:21 → 02:2219:4382 min19:430 min8 May
Chicago07:21 → 04:2219:5777 min19:580 min8 May
Jersey City08:21 → 05:2220:0078 min20:010 min8 May
Port of Spain08:21 → 05:2218:1991 min18:200 min8 May
London13:21 → 10:2220:3570 min20:370 min8 May
Durban14:21 → 11:2217:15106 min17:140 min8 May
Dubai16:21 → 13:2218:5286 min18:530 min8 May
Delhi17:51 → 14:5219:0184 min19:010 min8 May
Kolkata17:51 → 14:5218:0687 min18:070 min8 May
Singapore20:21 → 17:2219:0619 min19:060 min8 May
Sydney22:21 → 19:2217:080 min17:07108 min9 May
Suva00:21 → 21:2217:430 min17:43101 min9 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
parashurama-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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