Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1934

Friday 2 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 331 minutes.

Decide it for

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two sunrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Thursday 1 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:55 sunrise
05:4306:0706:3106:5507:1907:4308:07

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Friday 2 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:53 sunrise
05:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:4108:05

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 12:26 on Thu 1 Mar to 13:15 on Fri 2 Mar.

    1934-03-01T10:25:35Z → 1934-03-02T11:15:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:55 on the 1st and 06:53 on the 2nd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 1st and is on the 2nd.

    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 19845 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 1934: Friday 2 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 1934 falls on Friday 2 March. Pratipadā runs from 12:26 on Thu 1 Mar to 13:15 on Fri 2 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1934/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 2 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 2 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 2 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 1stCoveredSunrise 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:26 → 03:1506:23holds06:21no1 Mar
Chicago04:26 → 05:1506:27holds06:25no1 Mar
Jersey City05:26 → 06:1506:32holds06:30no1 Mar
Port of Spain06:26 → 07:1506:21no06:21holds2 Mar
London10:26 → 11:1506:48no06:46holds2 Mar
Durban12:26 → 13:1505:47no05:47holds2 Mar
Dubai14:26 → 15:1506:43no06:42holds2 Mar
Delhi15:56 → 16:4506:48no06:46holds2 Mar
Kolkata15:56 → 16:4505:59no05:58holds2 Mar
Singapore17:46 → 18:3506:35no06:35holds2 Mar
Sydney20:26 → 21:1505:42no05:43holds2 Mar
Suva22:26 → 23:1506:05no06:05holds2 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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