Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1982

Wednesday 10 March

Determinatein Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 531 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 Tuesday 9 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

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

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Wednesday 10 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

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

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 15:45 on Tue 9 Mar to 15:02 on Wed 10 Mar.

    1982-03-09T20:45:08Z → 1982-03-10T20:02:26Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:12 on the 9th and 06:12 on the 10th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 9th and is on the 10th.

    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 31840 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Lima, 1982: Wednesday 10 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lima, Vasantotsava 1982 falls on Wednesday 10 March. Pratipadā runs from 15:45 on Tue 9 Mar to 15:02 on Wed 10 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/lima/festivals/1982/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 10 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 10 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 10 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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:45 → 12:0206:12no06:11holds10 Mar
Chicago14:45 → 14:0206:13no06:12holds10 Mar
Jersey City15:45 → 15:0206:18no06:17holds10 Mar
Port of Spain16:45 → 16:0206:17no06:16holds10 Mar
London20:45 → 20:0206:29no06:27holds10 Mar
Durban22:45 → 22:0205:52no05:53holds10 Mar
Dubai00:45 → 00:0206:35no06:34holds10 Mar
Delhi02:15 → 01:3206:39no06:37holds10 Mar
Kolkata02:15 → 01:3205:52no05:51holds10 Mar
Singapore04:45 → 04:0207:13no07:12holds10 Mar
Sydney07:45 → 07:0206:49no06:50no11 Mar
Suva08:45 → 08:0206:08no06:08no11 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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