Ruling · Śaṅkara Jayantī · 2014

Sunday 4 May

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 227 minutes.

Decide it for

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46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two middays

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

Midday of Saturday 3 May

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:13  12:01 madhyāhna ends
10:2510:4911:1311:3712:0112:2512:49

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 4 May

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:13  12:01 madhyāhna ends
10:2510:4911:1311:3712:0112:2512:49

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 15:48 on Sat 3 May to 17:33 on Sun 4 May.

    2014-05-03T07:48:07Z → 2014-05-04T09:33:13Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:13–12:01 on the 3rd, 11:13–12:01 on the 4th.

    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 3rd and 48 of 48 on the 4th.

    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 13606 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Śaṅkara Jayantī, Daqing, 2014: Sunday 4 May.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Śaṅkara Jayantī 2014 falls on Sunday 4 May. Pañcamī runs from 15:48 on Sat 3 May to 17:33 on Sun 4 May and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2014/shankara-jayanti · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 4 May
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 4 May
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 4 May
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 3rdCoveredMadhyāhna 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:48 → 02:3312:2648 min12:260 min3 May
Chicago02:48 → 04:3312:2448 min12:240 min3 May
Jersey City03:48 → 05:3312:3048 min12:290 min3 May
Port of Spain03:48 → 05:3311:3948 min11:390 min3 May
London08:48 → 10:3312:3448 min12:340 min3 May
Durban09:48 → 11:3311:2948 min11:295 min3 May
Dubai11:48 → 13:3311:5248 min11:5248 min3 May
Delhi13:18 → 15:0311:540 min11:5448 min4 May
Kolkata13:18 → 15:0311:100 min11:0948 min4 May
Singapore15:48 → 17:3312:380 min12:3748 min4 May
Sydney17:48 → 19:3311:280 min11:2848 min4 May
Suva19:48 → 21:3311:390 min11:3948 min4 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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