Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2048

Monday 18 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 150 minutes.

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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 Sunday 17 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

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

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 18 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

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

48 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 15:09 on Sun 17 May to 17:19 on Mon 18 May.

    2048-05-17T07:08:44Z → 2048-05-18T09:19:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 17th, 11:51–12:39 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 48 of 48 on the 18th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 8989 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2048: Monday 18 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2048 falls on Monday 18 May. Pañcamī runs from 15:09 on Sun 17 May to 17:19 on Mon 18 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2048/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 18 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 18 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 18 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 17thCoveredMadhyāhna 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:09 → 02:1912:2648 min12:260 min17 May
Chicago02:09 → 04:1912:2348 min12:230 min17 May
Jersey City03:09 → 05:1912:2948 min12:290 min17 May
Port of Spain03:09 → 05:1911:3948 min11:390 min17 May
London08:09 → 10:1912:3348 min12:340 min17 May
Durban09:09 → 11:1911:2848 min11:280 min17 May
Dubai11:09 → 13:1911:5148 min11:5148 min17 May
Delhi12:39 → 14:4911:543 min11:5448 min18 May
Kolkata12:39 → 14:4911:090 min11:0948 min18 May
Singapore15:09 → 17:1912:370 min12:3748 min18 May
Sydney17:09 → 19:1911:280 min11:2848 min18 May
Suva19:09 → 21:1911:390 min11:3948 min18 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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