Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2021

Wednesday 10 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 52 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Wednesday 10 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:28 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:16
05:0405:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:28

108 of 108 minutes covered

Dawn of Thursday 11 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:27 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:15
05:0305:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:27

0 of 107 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 04:36 on Wed 10 Feb to 03:39 on Thu 11 Feb.

    2021-02-09T20:35:47Z → 2021-02-10T19:39:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:28–07:16 on the 10th, 05:27–07:15 on the 11th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 108 of 108 minutes on the 10th and 0 of 107 on the 11th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3139 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2021: Wednesday 10 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2021 falls on Wednesday 10 February. Caturdaśī runs from 04:36 on Wed 10 Feb to 03:39 on Thu 11 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2021/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 10 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 10 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 10 Feb
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/yama-tarpana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Pauṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“K 14 Yama tarpana (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīAruṇodaya 9thCoveredAruṇodaya 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:36 → 11:3904:580 min04:57105 min10 Feb
Chicago14:36 → 13:3905:050 min05:04109 min10 Feb
Jersey City15:36 → 14:3905:090 min05:08108 min10 Feb
Port of Spain16:36 → 15:3904:500 min04:5098 min10 Feb
London20:36 → 19:3905:310 min05:29115 min10 Feb
Durban22:36 → 21:3904:060 min04:0786 min10 Feb
Dubai00:36 → 23:3905:150 min05:14102 min10 Feb
Delhi02:06 → 01:0905:210 min05:20104 min10 Feb
Kolkata02:06 → 01:0904:300 min04:30102 min10 Feb
Singapore04:36 → 03:3905:410 min05:4195 min10 Feb
Sydney07:36 → 06:3905:010 min05:010 min11 Feb
Suva08:36 → 07:3904:270 min04:280 min11 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-tarpana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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