Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2059

Saturday 29 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 15 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 29 March

Taken. Both sunrises qualify; the rule takes the first.

06:03 sunrise
Pratipadā begins 05:48:11
04:5105:1505:3906:0306:2706:5107:15

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 30 March

Pratipadā holds at sunrise here too. Not taken.

07:01 sunrise
05:4906:1306:3707:0107:2507:4908:13

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 05:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 08:33 on Sun 30 Mar.

    2059-03-29T03:48:11Z → 2059-03-30T05:32:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:03 on the 29th and 07:01 on the 30th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 29th and is on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both sunrises qualify. Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.

    priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 883 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 2059: Saturday 29 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 2059 falls on Saturday 29 March. Pratipadā runs from 05:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 08:33 on Sun 30 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2059/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:48 → 22:3306:44holds06:43no29 Mar
Chicago22:48 → 00:3306:39holds06:37no29 Mar
Jersey City23:48 → 01:3306:45holds06:43no29 Mar
Port of Spain23:48 → 01:3306:05holds06:05no29 Mar
London03:48 → 06:3305:43holds06:41no29 Mar
Durban05:48 → 07:3306:05holds06:06holds29 Mar
Dubai07:48 → 09:3306:14no06:13holds30 Mar
Delhi09:18 → 11:0306:15no06:14holds30 Mar
Kolkata09:18 → 11:0305:33no05:32holds30 Mar
Singapore11:48 → 13:3307:06no07:06holds30 Mar
Sydney14:48 → 16:3307:05no07:06holds30 Mar
Suva15:48 → 17:3306:12no06:12holds30 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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