Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2034

Sunday 23 April

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 40 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Saturday 22 April

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī begins 13:21:27
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 23 April

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

madhyāhna begins 11:53  12:41 madhyāhna ends
11:0511:2911:5312:1712:4113:0513:29

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 13:21 on Sat 22 Apr to 10:49 on Sun 23 Apr.

    2034-04-22T05:21:28Z → 2034-04-23T02:49:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:53–12:41 on the 22nd, 11:53–12:41 on the 23rd.

    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 22nd and 0 of 48 on the 23rd.

    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 2424 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2034: Sunday 23 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2034 falls on Sunday 23 April. Pañcamī runs from 13:21 on Sat 22 Apr to 10:49 on Sun 23 Apr, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2034/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 23 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 23 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 22 Apr
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 22ndCoveredMadhyāhna 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:21 → 19:4912:2848 min12:280 min22 Apr
Chicago00:21 → 21:4912:2548 min12:250 min22 Apr
Jersey City01:21 → 22:4912:3148 min12:310 min22 Apr
Port of Spain01:21 → 22:4911:4148 min11:400 min22 Apr
London06:21 → 03:4912:3648 min12:350 min22 Apr
Durban07:21 → 04:4911:3048 min11:300 min22 Apr
Dubai09:21 → 06:4911:5348 min11:530 min22 Apr
Delhi10:51 → 08:1911:5648 min11:560 min22 Apr
Kolkata10:51 → 08:1911:1148 min11:110 min22 Apr
Singapore13:21 → 10:4912:396 min12:390 min22 Apr
Sydney15:21 → 12:4911:300 min11:2948 min23 Apr
Suva17:21 → 14:4911:410 min11:4148 min23 Apr
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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