Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2056

Thursday 2 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 250 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 2 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:51 sunrise
05:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:03

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Friday 3 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:49 sunrise
05:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:3708:01

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 02:41 on Thu 2 Mar to 23:32 on Thu 2 Mar.

    2056-03-02T00:40:33Z → 2056-03-02T21:32:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:51 on the 2nd and 06:49 on the 3rd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 2nd and is not on the 3rd.

    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 15002 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 2056: Thursday 2 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 2056 falls on Thursday 2 March. Pratipadā runs from 02:41 on Thu 2 Mar to 23:32 on Thu 2 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2056/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 2 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 2 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:41 → 13:3206:20holds06:18no2 Mar
Chicago18:41 → 15:3206:23holds06:21no2 Mar
Jersey City19:41 → 16:3206:28holds06:26no2 Mar
Port of Spain20:41 → 17:3206:20holds06:20no2 Mar
London00:41 → 21:3206:42holds06:40no2 Mar
Durban02:41 → 23:3205:48holds05:49no2 Mar
Dubai04:41 → 01:3206:40holds06:40no2 Mar
Delhi06:11 → 03:0206:45holds06:44no2 Mar
Kolkata06:11 → 03:0205:57no05:56no2 Mar
Singapore08:41 → 05:3207:14no07:14no2 Mar
Sydney11:41 → 08:3206:44no06:45holds3 Mar
Suva12:41 → 09:3206:06no06:06holds3 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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