Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1967

Sunday 26 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 49 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 Sunday 26 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:10 sunrise
Pratipadā begins 05:20:45
04:5805:2205:4606:1006:3406:5807:22

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 27 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:08 sunrise
04:5605:2005:4406:0806:3206:5607:20

Absent 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 05:21 on Sun 26 Mar to 01:32 on Mon 27 Mar.

    1967-03-26T03:20:46Z → 1967-03-26T23:32:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:10 on the 26th and 06:08 on the 27th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 26th and is not on the 27th.

    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 2934 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 1967: Sunday 26 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 1967 falls on Sunday 26 March. Pratipadā runs from 05:21 on Sun 26 Mar to 01:32 on Mon 27 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1967/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 26 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 26 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 26 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 26thCoveredSunrise 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:21 → 15:3205:49holds05:48no26 Mar
Chicago21:21 → 17:3205:45holds05:43no26 Mar
Jersey City22:21 → 18:3205:51holds05:49no26 Mar
Port of Spain23:21 → 19:3206:07holds06:07no26 Mar
London04:21 → 00:3206:52holds06:49no26 Mar
Durban05:21 → 01:3206:03holds06:03no26 Mar
Dubai07:21 → 03:3206:18no06:17no26 Mar
Delhi08:51 → 05:0206:19no06:18no26 Mar
Kolkata08:51 → 05:0205:36no05:35no26 Mar
Singapore10:51 → 07:0206:37no06:37holds27 Mar
Sydney13:21 → 09:3206:02no06:03holds27 Mar
Suva15:21 → 11:3206:11no06:12holds27 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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