Ruling · Paraśurāma Jayantī · 2018

Wednesday 18 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 457 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 Tuesday 17 April

Tṛtīyā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:22
18:3218:5619:2019:4420:0820:3220:56

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 18 April

Taken. The only evening Tṛtīyā reaches.

18:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:23
18:3318:5719:2119:4520:0920:3320:57

85 of 85 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 06:15 on Wed 18 Apr to 04:00 on Thu 19 Apr.

    2018-04-17T22:15:20Z → 2018-04-18T19:59:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:56–20:22 on the 17th, 18:57–20:23 on the 18th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 86 minutes on the 17th and 85 of 85 on the 18th.

    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 27440 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Paraśurāma Jayantī, Baoding, 2018: Wednesday 18 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Paraśurāma Jayantī 2018 falls on Wednesday 18 April. Tṛtīyā runs from 06:15 on Wed 18 Apr to 04:00 on Thu 19 Apr and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2018/parashurama-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 18 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 18 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 18 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/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 17thCoveredSunset 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:15 → 13:0019:2687 min19:270 min17 Apr
Chicago17:15 → 15:0019:3484 min19:350 min17 Apr
Jersey City18:15 → 16:0019:3885 min19:390 min17 Apr
Port of Spain18:15 → 16:0018:1793 min18:170 min17 Apr
London23:15 → 21:0020:000 min20:0258 min18 Apr
Durban00:15 → 22:0017:340 min17:33102 min18 Apr
Dubai02:15 → 00:0018:420 min18:4289 min18 Apr
Delhi03:45 → 01:3018:480 min18:4889 min18 Apr
Kolkata03:45 → 01:3017:570 min17:5890 min18 Apr
Singapore06:15 → 04:0019:080 min19:0895 min18 Apr
Sydney08:15 → 06:0017:300 min17:29103 min18 Apr
Suva10:15 → 08:0017:550 min17:5599 min18 Apr
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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