Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2060

Thursday 18 March

Determinatein Daegu, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 368 minutes.

Decide it for

35°52′ N 128°36′ E · Asia/Seoul · GeoNames 1835329

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Wednesday 17 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:33 sunrise
05:2105:4506:0906:3306:5707:2107:45

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Thursday 18 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:32 sunrise
05:2005:4406:0806:3206:5607:2007:44

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 12:41 on Wed 17 Mar to 15:12 on Thu 18 Mar.

    2060-03-17T03:41:30Z → 2060-03-18T06:12:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:33 on the 17th and 06:32 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 22081 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Daegu, 2060: Thursday 18 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daegu, Vasantotsava 2060 falls on Thursday 18 March. Pratipadā runs from 12:41 on Wed 17 Mar to 15:12 on Thu 18 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/daegu/festivals/2060/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 18 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 18 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 18 Mar
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/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 Angeles20:41 → 23:1207:00holds06:58no17 Mar
Chicago22:41 → 01:1206:58holds06:56no17 Mar
Jersey City23:41 → 02:1207:04holds07:02no17 Mar
Port of Spain23:41 → 02:1206:12holds06:11no17 Mar
London03:41 → 06:1206:09holds06:07holds17 Mar
Durban05:41 → 08:1205:58holds05:59holds17 Mar
Dubai07:41 → 10:1206:26no06:25holds18 Mar
Delhi09:11 → 11:4206:28no06:27holds18 Mar
Kolkata09:11 → 11:4205:43no05:42holds18 Mar
Singapore11:41 → 14:1207:10no07:10holds18 Mar
Sydney14:41 → 17:1206:57no06:57holds18 Mar
Suva15:41 → 18:1206:10no06:10holds18 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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