Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1907

Saturday 30 March

Determinatein Luanda, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 567 minutes.

Decide it for

8°50′ S 13°14′ E · Africa/Luanda · GeoNames 2240449

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Saturday 30 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

05:11 sunrise
03:5904:2304:4705:1105:3505:5906:23

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Sunday 31 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

05:11 sunrise
03:5904:2304:4705:1105:3505:5906:23

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 19:44 on Fri 29 Mar to 18:02 on Sat 30 Mar.

    1907-03-29T19:44:20Z → 1907-03-30T18:01:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 05:11 on the 30th and 05:11 on the 31st.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 30th and is not on the 31st.

    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 33994 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Luanda, 1907: Saturday 30 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Luanda, Vasantotsava 1907 falls on Saturday 30 March. Pratipadā runs from 19:44 on Fri 29 Mar to 18:02 on Sat 30 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/luanda/festivals/1907/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 30 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 30 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 30 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Luanda.

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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:44 → 10:0205:46no05:45holds30 Mar
Chicago13:44 → 12:0205:41no05:39holds30 Mar
Jersey City14:44 → 13:0205:47no05:45holds30 Mar
Port of Spain15:44 → 14:0206:06no06:05holds30 Mar
London19:44 → 18:0205:46no05:44holds30 Mar
Durban21:44 → 20:0206:04no06:05holds30 Mar
Dubai23:25 → 21:4305:56no05:55holds30 Mar
Delhi01:14 → 23:3206:17no06:15holds30 Mar
Kolkata01:14 → 23:3205:34no05:33holds30 Mar
Singapore02:44 → 01:0206:07no06:06holds30 Mar
Sydney05:44 → 04:0206:04no06:05holds30 Mar
Suva07:39 → 05:5706:07no06:07no30 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

About Ahargaṇa