Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2048

Sunday 1 March

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 662 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 Sunday 1 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:40 sunrise
05:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:2807:52

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Monday 2 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:39 sunrise
05:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:2707:51

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 19:38 on Sat 29 Feb to 18:01 on Sun 1 Mar.

    2048-02-29T14:38:13Z → 2048-03-01T13:01:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:40 on the 1st and 06:39 on the 2nd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 1st and is not on the 2nd.

    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 39708 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2048: Sunday 1 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2048 falls on Sunday 1 March. Pratipadā runs from 19:38 on Sat 29 Feb to 18:01 on Sun 1 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2048/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 1 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 1 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 1 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 29thCoveredSunrise 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles06:38 → 05:0106:22no06:21no29 Feb
Chicago08:38 → 07:0106:26no06:25holds1 Mar
Jersey City09:38 → 08:0106:31no06:29holds1 Mar
Port of Spain10:38 → 09:0106:21no06:21holds1 Mar
London14:38 → 13:0106:47no06:45holds1 Mar
Durban16:38 → 15:0105:47no05:48holds1 Mar
Dubai18:38 → 17:0106:42no06:41holds1 Mar
Delhi20:08 → 18:3106:47no06:46holds1 Mar
Kolkata20:08 → 18:3105:59no05:58holds1 Mar
Singapore22:38 → 21:0107:15no07:14holds1 Mar
Sydney01:38 → 00:0106:43no06:43holds1 Mar
Suva02:38 → 01:0106:05no06:05holds1 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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