Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) · 2089

Saturday 14 May

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 245 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 14 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 15 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:51  12:39 madhyāhna ends
11:0311:2711:5112:1512:3913:0313:27

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 07:46 on Sat 14 May to 05:01 on Sun 15 May.

    2089-05-13T23:46:23Z → 2089-05-14T21:01:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:51–12:39 on the 14th, 11:51–12:39 on the 15th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 48 on the 15th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14686 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Baoding, 2089: Saturday 14 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Śaṅkara Jayantī (Shankaracharya Jayanti) 2089 falls on Saturday 14 May. Pañcamī runs from 07:46 on Sat 14 May to 05:01 on Sun 15 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2089/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 14 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 14 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 14 May
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/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 13thCoveredMadhyāhna 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:46 → 14:0112:260 min12:2648 min14 May
Chicago18:46 → 16:0112:240 min12:2448 min14 May
Jersey City19:46 → 17:0112:290 min12:2948 min14 May
Port of Spain19:46 → 17:0111:390 min11:3948 min14 May
London00:46 → 22:0112:340 min12:3448 min14 May
Durban01:46 → 23:0111:280 min11:2848 min14 May
Dubai03:46 → 01:0111:520 min11:5248 min14 May
Delhi05:16 → 02:3111:540 min11:5448 min14 May
Kolkata05:16 → 02:3111:090 min11:0948 min14 May
Singapore07:46 → 05:0112:370 min12:3748 min14 May
Sydney09:46 → 07:0111:280 min11:2848 min14 May
Suva11:46 → 09:0111:390 min11:3941 min14 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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