Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2094

Wednesday 3 March

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 165 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 Tuesday 2 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

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

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Wednesday 3 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

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

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 09:37 on Tue 2 Mar to 11:34 on Wed 3 Mar.

    2094-03-02T07:36:36Z → 2094-03-03T09:34:22Z

  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 not on the 2nd and is 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 9928 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Bucharest, 2094: Wednesday 3 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Vasantotsava 2094 falls on Wednesday 3 March. Pratipadā runs from 09:37 on Tue 2 Mar to 11:34 on Wed 3 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2094/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 3 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 3 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 3 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 Angeles23:37 → 01:3406:20holds06:19no2 Mar
Chicago01:37 → 03:3406:23holds06:22no2 Mar
Jersey City02:37 → 04:3406:28holds06:27no2 Mar
Port of Spain03:37 → 05:3406:20holds06:20no2 Mar
London07:37 → 09:3406:43no06:41holds3 Mar
Durban09:37 → 11:3405:48no05:49holds3 Mar
Dubai11:37 → 13:3406:41no06:40holds3 Mar
Delhi13:07 → 15:0406:45no06:44holds3 Mar
Kolkata13:07 → 15:0405:57no05:56holds3 Mar
Singapore15:37 → 17:3407:14no07:14holds3 Mar
Sydney18:37 → 20:3406:44no06:45holds3 Mar
Suva19:37 → 21:3406:06no06:06holds3 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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