Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2062

Saturday 25 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 34 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 25 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:10 sunrise
Pratipadā begins 05:36:09
04:5805:2205:4606:1006:3406:5807:22

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 26 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

07:08 sunrise
Pratipadā ends 05:58:13
05:5606:2006:4407:0807:3207:5608:20

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 05:36 on Sat 25 Mar to 05:58 on Sun 26 Mar.

    2062-03-25T03:36:09Z → 2062-03-26T02:58:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:10 on the 25th and 07:08 on the 26th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 25th and is not on the 26th.

    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 2017 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 2062: Saturday 25 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 2062 falls on Saturday 25 March. Pratipadā runs from 05:36 on Sat 25 Mar to 05:58 on Sun 26 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2062/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 25 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 25 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 25 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 25thCoveredSunrise 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:36 → 19:5806:50holds06:48no25 Mar
Chicago22:36 → 21:5806:45holds06:43no25 Mar
Jersey City23:36 → 22:5806:51holds06:50no25 Mar
Port of Spain23:36 → 22:5806:07holds06:07no25 Mar
London03:36 → 03:5805:52holds06:49no25 Mar
Durban05:36 → 04:5806:03holds06:03no25 Mar
Dubai07:36 → 06:5806:18no06:17holds26 Mar
Delhi09:06 → 08:2806:20no06:18holds26 Mar
Kolkata09:06 → 08:2805:36no05:35holds26 Mar
Singapore11:36 → 10:5807:07no07:07holds26 Mar
Sydney14:36 → 13:5807:02no07:03holds26 Mar
Suva15:36 → 14:5806:11no06:12holds26 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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