Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2058

Monday 11 March

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 615 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two sunrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Sunday 10 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:38 sunrise
05:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:50

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 11 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:36 sunrise
05:2405:4806:1206:3607:0007:2407:48

Holds at sunrise

Pratipadā presentSunrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 16:53 on Sun 10 Mar to 17:23 on Mon 11 Mar.

    2058-03-10T08:53:00Z → 2058-03-11T09:23:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:38 on the 10th and 06:36 on the 11th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 10th and is on the 11th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 36912 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Baoding, 2058: Monday 11 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasantotsava 2058 falls on Monday 11 March. Pratipadā runs from 16:53 on Sun 10 Mar to 17:23 on Mon 11 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2058/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 11 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 11 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 11 Mar
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/vasantotsava · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Phālguna, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Pratipadā
Kāla
Sunrise
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“K 1 Vasantotsava (current at sunrise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunrise 10thCoveredSunrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:53 → 02:2307:10holds07:09no10 Mar
Chicago03:53 → 04:2307:11holds07:09no10 Mar
Jersey City04:53 → 05:2307:16holds07:14no10 Mar
Port of Spain04:53 → 05:2306:16holds06:16no10 Mar
London08:53 → 09:2306:26no06:24holds11 Mar
Durban10:53 → 11:2305:53no05:54holds11 Mar
Dubai12:53 → 13:2306:33no06:32holds11 Mar
Delhi14:23 → 14:5306:37no06:36holds11 Mar
Kolkata14:23 → 14:5305:50no05:49holds11 Mar
Singapore16:53 → 17:2307:12no07:12holds11 Mar
Sydney19:53 → 20:2306:51no06:51holds11 Mar
Suva20:53 → 21:2306:08no06:08holds11 Mar
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasantotsava@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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