Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2046

Friday 23 March

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 486 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Thursday 22 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

05:40 sunrise
04:2804:5205:1605:4006:0406:2806:52

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Friday 23 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:38 sunrise
04:2604:5005:1405:3806:0206:2606:50

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 17:27 on Thu 22 Mar to 13:45 on Fri 23 Mar.

    2046-03-22T09:27:02Z → 2046-03-23T05:44:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 05:40 on the 22nd and 05:38 on the 23rd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 22nd and is on the 23rd.

    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 29185 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Daqing, 2046: Friday 23 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Vasantotsava 2046 falls on Friday 23 March. Pratipadā runs from 17:27 on Thu 22 Mar to 13:45 on Fri 23 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2046/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 Mar
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/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 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:27 → 22:4506:54holds06:52no22 Mar
Chicago04:27 → 00:4506:50holds06:49no22 Mar
Jersey City05:27 → 01:4506:56holds06:55no22 Mar
Port of Spain05:27 → 01:4506:09holds06:09no22 Mar
London09:27 → 05:4505:59no05:57no22 Mar
Durban11:27 → 07:4506:01no06:01holds23 Mar
Dubai13:27 → 09:4506:21no06:20holds23 Mar
Delhi14:57 → 11:1506:23no06:22holds23 Mar
Kolkata14:57 → 11:1505:39no05:38holds23 Mar
Singapore17:27 → 13:4507:08no07:08holds23 Mar
Sydney20:27 → 16:4507:00no07:01holds23 Mar
Suva21:27 → 17:4506:11no06:11holds23 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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