Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2098

Tuesday 18 March

Determinatein Chattogram, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 328 minutes.

Decide it for

22°20′ N 91°50′ E · Asia/Dhaka · GeoNames 1205733

The two sunrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Monday 17 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:00 sunrise
04:4805:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:12

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 18 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:59 sunrise
04:4705:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:11

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 13:45 on Mon 17 Mar to 11:27 on Tue 18 Mar.

    2098-03-17T07:44:51Z → 2098-03-18T05:26:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:00 on the 17th and 05:59 on the 18th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 17th and is on the 18th.

    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 19654 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Chattogram, 2098: Tuesday 18 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Chattogram, Vasantotsava 2098 falls on Tuesday 18 March. Pratipadā runs from 13:45 on Mon 17 Mar to 11:27 on Tue 18 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/chattogram/festivals/2098/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 18 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 18 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 18 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Chattogram.

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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:45 → 22:2707:00holds06:59no17 Mar
Chicago02:45 → 00:2706:59holds06:57no17 Mar
Jersey City03:45 → 01:2707:04holds07:03no17 Mar
Port of Spain03:45 → 01:2706:12holds06:12no17 Mar
London07:45 → 05:2706:10no06:07no17 Mar
Durban09:45 → 07:2705:58no05:59holds18 Mar
Dubai11:45 → 09:2706:26no06:25holds18 Mar
Delhi13:15 → 10:5706:29no06:28holds18 Mar
Kolkata13:15 → 10:5705:44no05:43holds18 Mar
Singapore15:45 → 13:2707:10no07:10holds18 Mar
Sydney18:45 → 16:2706:57no06:57holds18 Mar
Suva19:45 → 17:2706:10no06:10holds18 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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