Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2037

Monday 2 March

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 71 minutes.

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 Monday 2 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:39 sunrise
Pratipadā begins 05:28:12
05:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:2707:51

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 3 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

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

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 05:28 on Mon 2 Mar to 01:40 on Tue 3 Mar.

    2037-03-02T00:28:13Z → 2037-03-02T20:39:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:39 on the 2nd and 06:38 on the 3rd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 2nd and is not on the 3rd.

    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 4263 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2037: Monday 2 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2037 falls on Monday 2 March. Pratipadā runs from 05:28 on Mon 2 Mar to 01:40 on Tue 3 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2037/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 2 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 2 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 2 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:28 → 12:4006:20holds06:19no2 Mar
Chicago18:28 → 14:4006:23holds06:22no2 Mar
Jersey City19:28 → 15:4006:28holds06:27no2 Mar
Port of Spain20:28 → 16:4006:20holds06:20no2 Mar
London00:28 → 20:4006:43holds06:41no2 Mar
Durban02:28 → 22:4005:48holds05:49no2 Mar
Dubai04:28 → 00:4006:41holds06:40no2 Mar
Delhi05:58 → 02:1006:45holds06:44no2 Mar
Kolkata05:58 → 02:1005:57no05:56no2 Mar
Singapore08:28 → 04:4007:14no07:14no2 Mar
Sydney11:28 → 07:4006:44no06:45holds3 Mar
Suva12:28 → 08:4006:06no06:06holds3 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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