Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 2002

Friday 17 May

Determinatein Daegu, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 461 minutes.

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 16 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 17 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:58  12:46 madhyāhna ends
11:1011:3411:5812:2212:4613:1013:34

48 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 21:11 on Thu 16 May to 20:27 on Fri 17 May.

    2002-05-16T12:11:06Z → 2002-05-17T11:26:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 16th, 11:58–12:46 on the 17th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 16th and 48 of 48 on the 17th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27637 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Daegu, 2002: Friday 17 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daegu, Śaṅkara Jayantī 2002 falls on Friday 17 May. Pañcamī runs from 21:11 on Thu 16 May to 20:27 on Fri 17 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daegu/festivals/2002/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 17 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 17 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 17 May
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daegu.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/shankara-jayanti · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Vaiśākha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 102

“S 5 Sankara jayanti.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 16thCoveredMadhyāhna 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:11 → 04:2712:2648 min12:260 min16 May
Chicago07:11 → 06:2712:2348 min12:230 min16 May
Jersey City08:11 → 07:2712:2948 min12:290 min16 May
Port of Spain08:11 → 07:2711:3848 min11:380 min16 May
London13:11 → 12:2712:3310 min12:330 min16 May
Durban14:11 → 13:2711:280 min11:2848 min17 May
Dubai16:11 → 15:2711:510 min11:5148 min17 May
Delhi17:41 → 16:5711:540 min11:5448 min17 May
Kolkata17:41 → 16:5711:090 min11:0948 min17 May
Singapore20:11 → 19:2712:370 min12:3748 min17 May
Sydney22:11 → 21:2711:270 min11:2748 min17 May
Suva00:11 → 23:2711:390 min11:3948 min17 May
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
shankara-jayanti@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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