Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2007

Sunday 4 March

Boundaryin Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 4 min 41 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

30°12′ N 71°29′ E · Asia/Karachi · GeoNames 1169825

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Sunday 4 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:38 sunrise
05:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:50

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 5 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:37 sunrise
Pratipadā ends 06:32:04
05:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:2507:49

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 04:17 on Sun 4 Mar to 06:32 on Mon 5 Mar.

    2007-03-03T23:17:07Z → 2007-03-05T01:32:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:38 on the 4th and 06:37 on the 5th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 4th and is not on the 5th.

    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 281 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2007: Sunday 4 March.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2007 falls on Sunday 4 March. Pratipadā runs from 04:17 on Sun 4 Mar to 06:32 on Mon 5 Mar and is current at sunrise that day. It is 4 min 41 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2007/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 4 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 4 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 4 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Multan.

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 3rdCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:17 → 17:3206:20no06:17no4 Mar
Chicago17:17 → 19:3206:23no06:20no4 Mar
Jersey City18:17 → 20:3206:28no06:25no4 Mar
Port of Spain19:17 → 21:3206:20no06:19no4 Mar
London23:17 → 01:3206:43no06:38no4 Mar
Durban01:17 → 03:3205:48no05:50no4 Mar
Dubai03:17 → 05:3206:41no06:39no4 Mar
Delhi04:47 → 07:0206:45no06:43holds4 Mar
Kolkata04:47 → 07:0205:57no05:55holds4 Mar
Singapore07:17 → 09:3207:14no07:14holds5 Mar
Sydney10:17 → 12:3206:44no06:46holds5 Mar
Suva11:17 → 13:3206:06no06:06holds5 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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