Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1906

Sunday 11 March

Determinatein Datong, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 150 minutes.

Decide it for

40°06′ N 113°17′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037799

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Sunday 11 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:47 sunrise
05:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:3507:59

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 12 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:46 sunrise
05:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:3407:58

Absent 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 04:17 on Sun 11 Mar to 01:34 on Mon 12 Mar.

    1906-03-10T20:17:08Z → 1906-03-11T17:34:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:47 on the 11th and 06:46 on the 12th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 11th and is not on the 12th.

    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 9011 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Datong, 1906: Sunday 11 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Datong, Vasantotsava 1906 falls on Sunday 11 March. Pratipadā runs from 04:17 on Sun 11 Mar to 01:34 on Mon 12 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/datong/festivals/1906/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 11 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 11 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 11 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Datong.

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 10thCoveredSunrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:17 → 09:3406:11no06:10holds11 Mar
Chicago14:17 → 11:3406:13no06:11holds11 Mar
Jersey City15:17 → 12:3406:18no06:16holds11 Mar
Port of Spain16:17 → 13:3406:17no06:16holds11 Mar
London20:17 → 17:3406:29no06:26holds11 Mar
Durban22:17 → 19:3405:53no05:53holds11 Mar
Dubai23:58 → 21:1506:15no06:14holds11 Mar
Delhi01:47 → 23:0406:38no06:37holds11 Mar
Kolkata01:47 → 23:0405:51no05:51holds11 Mar
Singapore03:17 → 00:3406:13no06:12holds11 Mar
Sydney06:17 → 03:3405:50no05:51no11 Mar
Suva08:12 → 05:2906:03no06:03no11 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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