Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2044

Monday 14 March

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 344 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 14 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:25 sunrise
05:1305:3706:0106:2506:4907:1307:37

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 15 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:24 sunrise
05:1205:3606:0006:2406:4807:1207:36

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 00:41 on Mon 14 Mar to 00:13 on Tue 15 Mar.

    2044-03-13T19:41:15Z → 2044-03-14T19:13:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:25 on the 14th and 06:24 on the 15th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 14th and is not on the 15th.

    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 20629 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2044: Monday 14 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2044 falls on Monday 14 March. Pratipadā runs from 00:41 on Mon 14 Mar to 00:13 on Tue 15 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2044/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 14 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 14 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 14 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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:41 → 12:1307:05no07:04holds14 Mar
Chicago14:41 → 14:1307:05no07:03holds14 Mar
Jersey City15:41 → 15:1307:10no07:09holds14 Mar
Port of Spain15:41 → 15:1306:14no06:14holds14 Mar
London19:41 → 19:1306:18no06:16holds14 Mar
Durban21:41 → 21:1305:55no05:56holds14 Mar
Dubai23:41 → 23:1306:30no06:29holds14 Mar
Delhi01:11 → 00:4306:33no06:32holds14 Mar
Kolkata01:11 → 00:4305:47no05:46holds14 Mar
Singapore03:41 → 03:1307:11no07:11holds14 Mar
Sydney06:41 → 06:1306:53no06:54holds14 Mar
Suva07:41 → 07:1306:09no06:09no15 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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