Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2008

Saturday 22 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 503 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 Saturday 22 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:15 sunrise
05:0305:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:27

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 23 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:13 sunrise
05:0105:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:25

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 20:40 on Fri 21 Mar to 21:50 on Sat 22 Mar.

    2008-03-21T18:39:57Z → 2008-03-22T19:49:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:15 on the 22nd and 06:13 on the 23rd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 22nd and is not 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 30204 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 2008: Saturday 22 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 2008 falls on Saturday 22 March. Pratipadā runs from 20:40 on Fri 21 Mar to 21:50 on Sat 22 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2008/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 22 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 22 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 22 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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:40 → 12:5006:55no06:53holds22 Mar
Chicago13:40 → 14:5006:52no06:50holds22 Mar
Jersey City14:40 → 15:5006:58no06:56holds22 Mar
Port of Spain14:40 → 15:5006:10no06:09holds22 Mar
London18:40 → 19:5006:01no05:58holds22 Mar
Durban20:40 → 21:5006:00no06:01holds22 Mar
Dubai22:40 → 23:5006:22no06:21holds22 Mar
Delhi00:10 → 01:2006:24no06:23holds22 Mar
Kolkata00:10 → 01:2005:40no05:39holds22 Mar
Singapore02:40 → 03:5007:09no07:08holds22 Mar
Sydney05:40 → 06:5006:59no07:00holds22 Mar
Suva06:40 → 07:5006:11no06:11no23 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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