Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2016

Wednesday 11 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 44 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Tuesday 10 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 11 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 13:22:49
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 15:00 on Tue 10 May to 13:23 on Wed 11 May.

    2016-05-10T07:00:08Z → 2016-05-11T05:22:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 10th, 11:51–12:39 on the 11th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 48 of 48 on the 11th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2642 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2016: Wednesday 11 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2016 falls on Wednesday 11 May. Pañcamī runs from 15:00 on Tue 10 May to 13:23 on Wed 11 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 11 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 11 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 11 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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:00 → 22:2312:2648 min12:260 min10 May
Chicago02:00 → 00:2312:2348 min12:230 min10 May
Jersey City03:00 → 01:2312:2948 min12:290 min10 May
Port of Spain03:00 → 01:2311:3948 min11:380 min10 May
London08:00 → 06:2312:3348 min12:330 min10 May
Durban09:00 → 07:2311:2848 min11:280 min10 May
Dubai11:00 → 09:2311:5148 min11:510 min10 May
Delhi12:30 → 10:5311:5412 min11:540 min10 May
Kolkata12:30 → 10:5311:090 min11:090 min11 May
Singapore15:00 → 13:2312:370 min12:3746 min11 May
Sydney17:00 → 15:2311:270 min11:2748 min11 May
Suva19:00 → 17:2311:390 min11:3948 min11 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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