Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2062

Wednesday 8 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 567 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 Tuesday 7 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:30 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:19
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

0 of 109 minutes covered

Dawn of Wednesday 8 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:30 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:18
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

108 of 108 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 16:46 on Tue 7 Feb to 18:40 on Wed 8 Feb.

    2062-02-07T08:45:57Z → 2062-02-08T10:39:49Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:30–07:19 on the 7th, 05:30–07:18 on the 8th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 109 minutes on the 7th and 108 of 108 on the 8th.

    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 34020 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2062: Wednesday 8 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2062 falls on Wednesday 8 February. Caturdaśī runs from 16:46 on Tue 7 Feb to 18:40 on Wed 8 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2062/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 8 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 8 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 8 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 7thCoveredAruṇodaya 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:46 → 02:4004:59106 min04:580 min7 Feb
Chicago02:46 → 04:4005:06110 min05:060 min7 Feb
Jersey City03:46 → 05:4005:11109 min05:1030 min7 Feb
Port of Spain04:46 → 06:4004:5098 min04:5098 min7 Feb
London08:46 → 10:4005:330 min05:32115 min8 Feb
Durban10:46 → 12:4004:050 min04:0686 min8 Feb
Dubai12:46 → 14:4005:160 min05:15103 min8 Feb
Delhi14:16 → 16:1005:220 min05:21104 min8 Feb
Kolkata14:16 → 16:1004:310 min04:31102 min8 Feb
Singapore16:46 → 18:4005:410 min05:4196 min8 Feb
Sydney19:46 → 21:4004:590 min05:0084 min8 Feb
Suva20:46 → 22:4004:270 min04:2790 min8 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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