Ruling · Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) · 2021

Tuesday 25 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 133 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Monday 24 May

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:31 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:47
19:0719:3119:5520:1920:4321:0721:31

0 of 76 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 25 May

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:47
19:0819:3219:5620:2020:4421:0821:32

75 of 75 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 02:42 on Tue 25 May to 23:00 on Tue 25 May.

    2021-05-24T18:41:37Z → 2021-05-25T15:00:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:31–20:47 on the 24th, 19:32–20:47 on the 25th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 76 minutes on the 24th and 75 of 75 on the 25th.

    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 7960 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2021: Tuesday 25 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Nṛsiṃha Caturdaśī (Narasimha Jayanti) 2021 falls on Tuesday 25 May. Caturdaśī runs from 02:42 on Tue 25 May to 23:00 on Tue 25 May and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2021/nrisimha-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 25 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 25 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 25 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/nrisimha-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 14 Nrsimha caturdasi (pradosa vyapini — if it occurs on two successive days, the second day is to be observed, special when combined with naksatra 'Svati', yoga 'Siddhi' and 'Saturday').” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102. The row calls the day special with Svātī nakṣatra, Siddhi yoga and a Saturday; none is tested.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 24thCoveredSunset 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:42 → 08:0019:5479 min19:550 min24 May
Chicago13:42 → 10:0020:1373 min20:130 min24 May
Jersey City14:42 → 11:0020:1574 min20:160 min24 May
Port of Spain14:42 → 11:0018:2391 min18:230 min24 May
London19:42 → 16:0020:5964 min21:000 min24 May
Durban20:42 → 17:0017:060 min17:060 min24 May
Dubai22:42 → 19:0019:010 min19:010 min24 May
Delhi00:12 → 20:3019:100 min19:1180 min25 May
Kolkata00:12 → 20:3018:140 min18:1485 min25 May
Singapore02:42 → 23:0019:070 min19:0795 min25 May
Sydney04:42 → 01:0016:570 min16:57111 min25 May
Suva06:42 → 03:0017:380 min17:38103 min25 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
nrisimha-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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