Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2040

Saturday 11 February

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 dawns

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

Dawn of Saturday 11 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:28 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:15
05:0405:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:28

108 of 108 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 12 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:27 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:14
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 04:48 on Sat 11 Feb to 01:33 on Sun 12 Feb.

    2040-02-10T20:47:48Z → 2040-02-11T17:32:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:28–07:15 on the 11th, 05:27–07:14 on the 12th.

    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 11th and 0 of 107 on the 12th.

    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 2398 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2040: Saturday 11 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2040 falls on Saturday 11 February. Caturdaśī runs from 04:48 on Sat 11 Feb to 01:33 on Sun 12 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2040/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 11 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 11 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 11 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 10thCoveredAruṇodaya 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:48 → 09:3304:570 min04:57105 min11 Feb
Chicago14:48 → 11:3305:040 min05:03109 min11 Feb
Jersey City15:48 → 12:3305:090 min05:08108 min11 Feb
Port of Spain16:48 → 13:3304:500 min04:5098 min11 Feb
London20:48 → 17:3305:300 min05:29114 min11 Feb
Durban22:48 → 19:3304:060 min04:0786 min11 Feb
Dubai00:48 → 21:3305:150 min05:14102 min11 Feb
Delhi02:18 → 23:0305:200 min05:20104 min11 Feb
Kolkata02:18 → 23:0304:300 min04:30102 min11 Feb
Singapore04:48 → 01:3305:410 min05:4195 min11 Feb
Sydney07:48 → 04:3305:010 min05:020 min11 Feb
Suva08:48 → 05:3304:280 min04:280 min12 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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