Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2078

Friday 11 February

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 191 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 Friday 11 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:27 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:15
05:0305:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:27

107 of 107 minutes covered

Dawn of Saturday 12 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:26 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:13
05:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:26

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 02:16 on Fri 11 Feb to 00:24 on Sat 12 Feb.

    2078-02-10T18:15:53Z → 2078-02-11T16:23:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:27–07:15 on the 11th, 05:26–07:13 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 107 of 107 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 11480 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2078: Friday 11 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2078 falls on Friday 11 February. Caturdaśī runs from 02:16 on Fri 11 Feb to 00:24 on Sat 12 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2078/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 11 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 11 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 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 Angeles10:16 → 08:2404:570 min04:56105 min11 Feb
Chicago12:16 → 10:2405:040 min05:03108 min11 Feb
Jersey City13:16 → 11:2405:080 min05:07108 min11 Feb
Port of Spain14:16 → 12:2404:500 min04:5098 min11 Feb
London18:16 → 16:2405:290 min05:28114 min11 Feb
Durban20:16 → 18:2404:070 min04:0886 min11 Feb
Dubai22:16 → 20:2405:140 min05:14102 min11 Feb
Delhi23:46 → 21:5405:200 min05:19103 min11 Feb
Kolkata23:46 → 21:5404:300 min04:30101 min11 Feb
Singapore02:16 → 00:2405:410 min05:4195 min11 Feb
Sydney05:16 → 03:2405:020 min05:0271 min11 Feb
Suva06:16 → 04:2404:280 min04:280 min11 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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