Ruling · Vaiśākhī · 1908

Sunday 12 April

Determinatein Luanda, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 446 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day is sunrise to the next sunrise.

Day of Sunday 12 April

Taken. The transit falls in this day.

05:10 sunrisenext sunrise 05:10
Sun enters Meṣa 21:44:27
04:4608:4612:4616:4620:4600:4604:46

Falls in this day

Day of Monday 13 April

The transit does not fall in this day. Not taken.

05:10 sunrisenext sunrise 05:10
04:4608:4612:4616:4620:4600:4604:46

Does not fall in this day

The day, the window the rule readsThe instant the Sun enters Meṣa

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    The Sun enters Meṣa at 21:44 on Sun 12 Apr.

    1908-04-12T21:44:28Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise: from 05:10 on the 12th, and from 05:10 on the 13th.

    day: sunrise-to-sunrise · sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from sunrise. The transit falls on the 12th, not the 13th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.

    day counted from sunrise → only-day · margin 26739 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vaiśākhī, Luanda, 1908: Sunday 12 April.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Luanda, Vaiśākhī 1908 falls on Sunday 12 April. The Sun enters Meṣa at 21:44 on Sun 12 Apr, and the rule counts the day from sunrise. By the Tamil rule for the first day of a solar month, which gives a transit after sunset to the next day, it is 13 April.

ahargana.org/luanda/festivals/1908/vaishakhi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 12 Apr
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 12 Apr
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 12 Apr
Counted from midnightCRC 1955, p. 106Sun 12 Apr
Past sunset, the next day (the Tamil rule)CRC 1955, p. 244Mon 13 Apr
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/vaishakhi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Sign entered
Meṣa
Zodiac
Nirayana
Ayanāṃśa
lahiri-iae1985
Day counted from
Sunrise
Tie-break
None: an instant
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 106

“Mesadi — Cadaka puja (Bengal), Bahag Bihu (Assam), Cheiraoba (Manipur), Visu (T. C. State), Vaisakhi (on the samkramana day commencing from sunrise).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. “The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). For this purpose the day has been taken to begin from midnight, i.e., when the samkramana takes place after midnight, the festival relating to the samkramana is to be observed on the following day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106. The other names in the row (Cadaka puja, Bahag Bihu, Cheiraoba, Visu) are regional observances and wait with the regional rows.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceSun enters MeṣaSunrise 12thCoveredSunrise 13thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:4405:26falls05:25no12 Apr
Chicago15:4405:16falls05:14no12 Apr
Jersey City16:4405:23falls05:21no12 Apr
Port of Spain17:4405:57falls05:57no12 Apr
London21:4405:13falls05:11no12 Apr
Durban23:4406:13falls06:14no12 Apr
Dubai01:2505:41falls05:40no12 Apr
Delhi03:1406:00falls05:59no12 Apr
Kolkata03:1405:20falls05:19no12 Apr
Singapore04:4406:02falls06:01no12 Apr
Sydney07:4406:15no06:16falls13 Apr
Suva09:3906:10no06:10falls13 Apr
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vaishakhi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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