Ruling · Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) · 2064

Monday 14 April

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 0 min 57 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is sunrise to the next sunrise.

Day of Sunday 13 April

The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.

05:45 sunrisenext sunrise 05:43
Sun enters Meṣa 05:44:02
05:2109:2113:2117:2121:2101:2105:21

Does not fall in this day

Day of Monday 14 April

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

05:43 sunrisenext sunrise 05:42
Sun enters Meṣa 05:44:02
05:1909:1913:1917:1921:1901:1905:19

Falls in this day

The day, the window the rule readsThe instant the Sun enters Meṣa

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Meṣa at 05:44 on Mon 14 Apr.

    2064-04-13T21:44:02Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise: from 05:45 on the 13th, and from 05:43 on the 14th.

    day: sunrise-to-sunrise · sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from sunrise. The transit falls on the 14th, not the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.

    day counted from sunrise → only-day · margin 57 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaiśākhī, Baoding, 2064: Monday 14 April.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vaiśākhī (Baisakhi) 2064 falls on Monday 14 April. The Sun enters Meṣa at 05:44 on Mon 14 Apr, and the rule counts the day from sunrise. It is 0 min 57 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2064/vaishakhi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 14 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 13 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 14 Apr
Counted from midnightCRC 1955, p. 106Mon 14 Apr
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Mon 14 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/vaishakhi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Sign entered
Meṣa
Zodiac
Nirayana
Ayanāṃśa
lahiri-iae1985
Day counted from
Sunrise
Tie-break
None: an instant
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 106

“Mesadi — Cadaka puja (Bengal), Bahag Bihu (Assam), Cheiraoba (Manipur), Visu (T. C. State), Vaisakhi (on the samkramana day commencing from sunrise).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. “The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). For this purpose the day has been taken to begin from midnight, i.e., when the samkramana takes place after midnight, the festival relating to the samkramana is to be observed on the following day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. The other names in the row (Cadaka puja, Bahag Bihu, Cheiraoba, Visu) are regional observances and wait with the regional rows.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSun enters MeṣaSunrise 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:4406:24falls06:22no13 Apr
Chicago16:4406:13falls06:11no13 Apr
Jersey City17:4406:20falls06:18no13 Apr
Port of Spain17:4405:56falls05:56no13 Apr
London22:4406:08falls06:06no13 Apr
Durban23:4406:14falls06:15no13 Apr
Dubai01:4405:58falls05:57no13 Apr
Delhi03:1405:58falls05:56no13 Apr
Kolkata03:1405:18falls05:17no13 Apr
Singapore05:4407:01falls07:01no13 Apr
Sydney07:4406:17no06:18falls14 Apr
Suva09:4406:16no06:16falls14 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vaishakhi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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