Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1936

Sunday 8 March

Determinatein Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 217 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 Sunday 8 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:12 sunrise
05:0005:2405:4806:1206:3607:0007:24

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 9 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:12 sunrise
05:0005:2405:4806:1206:3607:0007:24

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 00:14 on Sun 8 Mar to 02:35 on Mon 9 Mar.

    1936-03-08T05:13:31Z → 1936-03-09T07:35:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:12 on the 8th and 06:12 on the 9th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 8th and is not on the 9th.

    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 12997 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Lima, 1936: Sunday 8 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lima, Vasantotsava 1936 falls on Sunday 8 March. Pratipadā runs from 00:14 on Sun 8 Mar to 02:35 on Mon 9 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/lima/festivals/1936/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 8 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 8 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 8 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:14 → 23:3506:13holds06:12no8 Mar
Chicago00:14 → 02:3507:15holds07:13no8 Mar
Jersey City00:14 → 02:3506:20holds06:18no8 Mar
Port of Spain01:14 → 03:3506:18holds06:17no8 Mar
London05:14 → 07:3506:31holds06:29holds8 Mar
Durban07:14 → 09:3505:52no05:52holds9 Mar
Dubai09:14 → 11:3506:36no06:35holds9 Mar
Delhi10:44 → 13:0506:40no06:38holds9 Mar
Kolkata10:44 → 13:0505:53no05:52holds9 Mar
Singapore12:34 → 14:5506:33no06:33holds9 Mar
Sydney15:14 → 17:3505:49no05:50holds9 Mar
Suva17:14 → 19:3506:07no06:08holds9 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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