Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2084

Thursday 23 March

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 433 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 Wednesday 22 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:18 sunrise
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Thursday 23 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:17 sunrise
05:0505:2905:5306:1706:4107:0507:29

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 14:50 on Wed 22 Mar to 13:30 on Thu 23 Mar.

    2084-03-22T06:49:52Z → 2084-03-23T05:29:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:18 on the 22nd and 06:17 on the 23rd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 22nd and is on the 23rd.

    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 25978 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Baoding, 2084: Thursday 23 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasantotsava 2084 falls on Thursday 23 March. Pratipadā runs from 14:50 on Wed 22 Mar to 13:30 on Thu 23 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2084/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 23 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 23 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 23 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 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:50 → 22:3006:53holds06:51no22 Mar
Chicago01:50 → 00:3006:49holds06:47no22 Mar
Jersey City02:50 → 01:3006:55holds06:54no22 Mar
Port of Spain02:50 → 01:3006:09holds06:08no22 Mar
London06:50 → 05:3005:57no05:55no22 Mar
Durban08:50 → 07:3006:01no06:02holds23 Mar
Dubai10:50 → 09:3006:20no06:19holds23 Mar
Delhi12:20 → 11:0006:22no06:21holds23 Mar
Kolkata12:20 → 11:0005:39no05:38holds23 Mar
Singapore14:50 → 13:3007:08no07:08holds23 Mar
Sydney17:50 → 16:3007:01no07:01holds23 Mar
Suva18:50 → 17:3006:11no06:11holds23 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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