Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2098

Friday 31 January

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 330 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 Thursday 30 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:36 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:26
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:3608:00

0 of 111 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 31 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:35 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:26
05:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

110 of 110 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 12:57 on Thu 30 Jan to 15:30 on Fri 31 Jan.

    2098-01-30T04:56:38Z → 2098-01-31T07:29:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:36–07:26 on the 30th, 05:35–07:26 on the 31st.

    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 111 minutes on the 30th and 110 of 110 on the 31st.

    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 19813 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Baoding, 2098: Friday 31 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Yama Tarpaṇa 2098 falls on Friday 31 January. Caturdaśī runs from 12:57 on Thu 30 Jan to 15:30 on Fri 31 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2098/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 31 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 31 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 31 Jan
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 30thCoveredAruṇodaya 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:57 → 23:3005:03108 min05:030 min30 Jan
Chicago22:57 → 01:3005:13112 min05:120 min30 Jan
Jersey City23:57 → 02:3005:16112 min05:160 min30 Jan
Port of Spain00:57 → 03:3004:5199 min04:510 min30 Jan
London04:57 → 07:3005:42120 min05:41109 min30 Jan
Durban06:57 → 09:3004:000 min04:0184 min31 Jan
Dubai08:57 → 11:3005:180 min05:18104 min31 Jan
Delhi10:27 → 13:0005:250 min05:25105 min31 Jan
Kolkata10:27 → 13:0004:330 min04:33103 min31 Jan
Singapore12:57 → 15:3005:410 min05:4196 min31 Jan
Sydney15:57 → 18:3004:540 min04:5482 min31 Jan
Suva16:57 → 19:3004:240 min04:2489 min31 Jan
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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