Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2025

Friday 2 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 6 min 14 s.

Decide it for

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

The two middays

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

Midday of Thursday 1 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:52  12:40 madhyāhna ends
11:0411:2811:5212:1612:4013:0413:28

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 2 May

Taken. Pañcamī reaches neither midday; the rule takes the second day.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 11:45:11
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 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 13:54 on Thu 1 May to 11:45 on Fri 2 May.

    2025-05-01T05:54:07Z → 2025-05-02T03:45:12Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:52–12:40 on the 1st, 11:51–12:39 on the 2nd.

    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 1st and 0 of 48 on the 2nd.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.

    priority: unstated → second-day · margin 374 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2025: Friday 2 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2025 falls on Friday 2 May. Pañcamī runs from 13:54 on Thu 1 May to 11:45 on Fri 2 May, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2025/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 2 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 2 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 2 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 1stCoveredMadhyāhna 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:54 → 20:4512:2648 min12:260 min1 May
Chicago00:54 → 22:4512:2448 min12:240 min1 May
Jersey City01:54 → 23:4512:3048 min12:300 min1 May
Port of Spain01:54 → 23:4511:3948 min11:390 min1 May
London06:54 → 04:4512:3448 min12:340 min1 May
Durban07:54 → 05:4511:2948 min11:290 min1 May
Dubai09:54 → 07:4511:5248 min11:520 min1 May
Delhi11:24 → 09:1511:5448 min11:540 min1 May
Kolkata11:24 → 09:1511:1034 min11:100 min1 May
Singapore13:54 → 11:4512:380 min12:380 min2 May
Sydney15:54 → 13:4511:280 min11:2848 min2 May
Suva17:54 → 15:4511:390 min11:3948 min2 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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