Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2029

Saturday 13 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 245 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 Saturday 13 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:42 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:4208:06

115 of 115 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 14 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:41 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:36
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

0 of 114 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 01:37 on Sat 13 Jan to 01:17 on Sun 14 Jan.

    2029-01-12T17:36:57Z → 2029-01-13T17:17:15Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:42–07:36 on the 13th, 05:41–07:36 on the 14th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 115 of 115 minutes on the 13th and 0 of 114 on the 14th.

    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 14676 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2029: Saturday 13 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2029 falls on Saturday 13 January. Caturdaśī runs from 01:37 on Sat 13 Jan to 01:17 on Sun 14 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2029/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 13 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 13 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 13 Jan
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 12thCoveredAruṇodaya 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:37 → 09:1705:080 min05:08111 min13 Jan
Chicago11:37 → 11:1705:200 min05:20117 min13 Jan
Jersey City12:37 → 12:1705:230 min05:23116 min13 Jan
Port of Spain13:37 → 13:1704:480 min04:49100 min13 Jan
London17:37 → 17:1705:560 min05:55126 min13 Jan
Durban19:37 → 19:1703:470 min03:4781 min13 Jan
Dubai21:37 → 21:1705:200 min05:20106 min13 Jan
Delhi23:07 → 22:4705:270 min05:27108 min13 Jan
Kolkata23:07 → 22:4704:340 min04:34105 min13 Jan
Singapore01:37 → 01:1705:360 min05:3696 min13 Jan
Sydney04:37 → 04:1704:390 min04:4079 min13 Jan
Suva05:37 → 05:1704:140 min04:145 min14 Jan
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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