Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2090

Thursday 16 March

Determinatein Multan, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 99 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 Thursday 16 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:23 sunrise
05:1105:3505:5906:2306:4707:1107:35

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Friday 17 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:22 sunrise
05:1005:3405:5806:2206:4607:1007:34

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 04:44 on Thu 16 Mar to 01:14 on Fri 17 Mar.

    2090-03-15T23:43:35Z → 2090-03-16T20:14:12Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:23 on the 16th and 06:22 on the 17th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 16th and is not on the 17th.

    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 5968 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Multan, 2090: Thursday 16 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Multan, Vasantotsava 2090 falls on Thursday 16 March. Pratipadā runs from 04:44 on Thu 16 Mar to 01:14 on Fri 17 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/multan/festivals/2090/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 16 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 16 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:44 → 13:1407:03no07:02holds16 Mar
Chicago18:44 → 15:1407:02no07:00holds16 Mar
Jersey City19:44 → 16:1407:08no07:06holds16 Mar
Port of Spain19:44 → 16:1406:13no06:13holds16 Mar
London23:44 → 20:1406:14no06:12holds16 Mar
Durban01:44 → 22:1405:57no05:57holds16 Mar
Dubai03:44 → 00:1406:28no06:27holds16 Mar
Delhi05:14 → 01:4406:31no06:30holds16 Mar
Kolkata05:14 → 01:4405:46no05:45holds16 Mar
Singapore07:44 → 04:1407:11no07:10no16 Mar
Sydney10:44 → 07:1406:55no06:56no17 Mar
Suva11:44 → 08:1406:09no06:10no17 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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