Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1902

Monday 24 March

Determinatein Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 418 minutes.

Decide it for

12°03′ S 77°02′ W · America/Lima · GeoNames 3936456

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Monday 24 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:04 sunrise
04:5205:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:16

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 25 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:04 sunrise
04:5205:1605:4006:0406:2806:5207:16

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 22:12 on Sun 23 Mar to 23:05 on Mon 24 Mar.

    1902-03-24T03:21:13Z → 1902-03-25T04:14:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:04 on the 24th and 06:04 on the 25th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 24th and is not on the 25th.

    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 25092 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Lima, 1902: Monday 24 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lima, Vasantotsava 1902 falls on Monday 24 March. Pratipadā runs from 22:12 on Sun 23 Mar to 23:05 on Mon 24 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/lima/festivals/1902/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 24 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 24 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 24 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Lima.

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 24thCoveredSunrise 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:21 → 20:1405:53holds05:51no24 Mar
Chicago21:21 → 22:1405:49holds05:47no24 Mar
Jersey City22:21 → 23:1405:55holds05:53no24 Mar
Port of Spain23:21 → 00:1406:09holds06:08no24 Mar
London03:21 → 04:1405:57holds05:55no24 Mar
Durban04:51 → 05:4405:31holds05:32holds24 Mar
Dubai07:02 → 07:5506:01no06:00holds25 Mar
Delhi08:42 → 09:3506:13no06:12holds25 Mar
Kolkata08:42 → 09:3505:29no05:28holds25 Mar
Singapore10:16 → 11:0906:03no06:03holds25 Mar
Sydney13:21 → 14:1406:01no06:01holds25 Mar
Suva15:16 → 16:0906:06no06:06holds25 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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