Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2068

Monday 19 March

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 10 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 19 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:19 sunrise
05:0705:3105:5506:1906:4307:0707:31

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 20 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:18 sunrise
Pratipadā ends 06:07:38
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

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 03:57 on Mon 19 Mar to 06:08 on Tue 20 Mar.

    2068-03-18T22:56:37Z → 2068-03-20T01:07:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:19 on the 19th and 06:18 on the 20th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 19th and is not on the 20th.

    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 604 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2068: Monday 19 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2068 falls on Monday 19 March. Pratipadā runs from 03:57 on Mon 19 Mar to 06:08 on Tue 20 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2068/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 19 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 19 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 19 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 18thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:57 → 18:0806:58no06:56no19 Mar
Chicago17:57 → 20:0806:56no06:53no19 Mar
Jersey City18:57 → 21:0807:02no06:59no19 Mar
Port of Spain18:57 → 21:0806:11no06:10no19 Mar
London22:57 → 01:0806:07no06:02no19 Mar
Durban00:57 → 03:0805:59no06:00no19 Mar
Dubai02:57 → 05:0806:25no06:23no19 Mar
Delhi04:27 → 06:3806:27no06:25holds19 Mar
Kolkata04:27 → 06:3805:42no05:41holds19 Mar
Singapore06:57 → 09:0807:10no07:09holds19 Mar
Sydney09:57 → 12:0806:57no06:59holds20 Mar
Suva10:57 → 13:0806:10no06:11holds20 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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