Ruling · Vasantotsava · 1924

Saturday 22 March

Determinatein Puning, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 215 minutes.

Decide it for

23°19′ N 116°10′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1802940

The two sunrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The sunrise is read as upper limb, 31′ + 16′.

Sunrise of Friday 21 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

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

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Saturday 22 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:18 sunrise
05:0605:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:30

Holds 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 12:30 on Fri 21 Mar to 09:53 on Sat 22 Mar.

    1924-03-21T04:29:53Z → 1924-03-22T01:53:23Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:19 on the 21st and 06:18 on the 22nd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 21st and is on the 22nd.

    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 12899 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Puning, 1924: Saturday 22 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Puning, Vasantotsava 1924 falls on Saturday 22 March. Pratipadā runs from 12:30 on Fri 21 Mar to 09:53 on Sat 22 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/puning/festivals/1924/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 22 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 22 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 22 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Puning.

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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:30 → 17:5305:56holds05:54no21 Mar
Chicago22:30 → 19:5305:53holds05:51no21 Mar
Jersey City23:30 → 20:5305:59holds05:57no21 Mar
Port of Spain00:30 → 21:5306:10holds06:09no21 Mar
London04:30 → 01:5306:02holds06:00no21 Mar
Durban06:30 → 03:5306:00no06:01no21 Mar
Dubai08:30 → 05:5306:23no06:22no21 Mar
Delhi10:00 → 07:2306:25no06:24holds22 Mar
Kolkata10:00 → 07:2305:41no05:40holds22 Mar
Singapore11:30 → 08:5306:09no06:09holds22 Mar
Sydney14:30 → 11:5305:59no06:00holds22 Mar
Suva16:30 → 13:5306:10no06:11holds22 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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