Ruling · Akṣaya Tṛtīyā (Akha Teej) · 2021

Saturday 15 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 38 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 Friday 14 May

Qualifies with 103 of 285 minutes. Not taken.

05:07 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:52
Tṛtīyā begins 08:09:05
04:4305:3106:1907:0707:5508:4309:3110:19

103 of 285 minutes covered, the last 103

Forenoon of Saturday 15 May

Taken. Both forenoons qualify; the rule takes the second.

05:06 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:52
04:4205:3006:1807:0607:5408:4209:3010:18

286 of 286 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 08:09 on Fri 14 May to 10:30 on Sat 15 May.

    2021-05-14T00:09:06Z → 2021-05-15T02:30:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:07–09:52 on the 14th, 05:06–09:52 on the 15th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Tṛtīyā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 103 of 285 minutes on the 14th and 286 of 286 on the 15th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both forenoons qualify. Paraviddhā: the second is taken.

    priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 2293 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Tṛtīyā, Baoding, 2021: Saturday 15 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Tṛtīyā (Akha Teej) 2021 falls on Saturday 15 May. Tṛtīyā runs from 08:09 on Fri 14 May to 10:30 on Sat 15 May and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the previous forenoon for 103 minutes; by the rule the second forenoon is taken.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2021/akshaya-tritiya · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 15 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 15 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 15 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/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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:09 → 19:3005:52278 min05:510 min14 May
Chicago19:09 → 21:3005:32290 min05:310 min14 May
Jersey City20:09 → 22:3005:40288 min05:390 min14 May
Port of Spain20:09 → 22:3005:44252 min05:440 min14 May
London01:09 → 03:3005:10311 min05:090 min14 May
Durban02:09 → 04:3006:33213 min06:340 min14 May
Dubai04:09 → 06:3005:35267 min05:3556 min15 May
Delhi05:39 → 08:0005:31263 min05:31150 min15 May
Kolkata05:39 → 08:0004:57222 min04:57183 min15 May
Singapore08:09 → 10:3006:56170 min06:56214 min15 May
Sydney10:09 → 12:3006:400 min06:40207 min15 May
Suva12:09 → 14:3006:240 min06:25225 min15 May
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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