Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2015

Friday 6 March

Determinatein Puning, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 110 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 6 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:34 sunrise
05:2205:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:46

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Saturday 7 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:33 sunrise
05:2105:4506:0906:3306:5707:2107:45

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 02:05 on Fri 6 Mar to 04:43 on Sat 7 Mar.

    2015-03-05T18:05:24Z → 2015-03-06T20:42:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:34 on the 6th and 06:33 on the 7th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 6th and is not on the 7th.

    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 6598 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Puning, 2015: Friday 6 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Puning, Vasantotsava 2015 falls on Friday 6 March. Pratipadā runs from 02:05 on Fri 6 Mar to 04:43 on Sat 7 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/puning/festivals/2015/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 6 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 6 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 6 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 5thCoveredSunrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:05 → 12:4306:17no06:16holds6 Mar
Chicago12:05 → 14:4306:20no06:18holds6 Mar
Jersey City13:05 → 15:4306:25no06:23holds6 Mar
Port of Spain14:05 → 16:4306:19no06:19holds6 Mar
London18:05 → 20:4306:38no06:36holds6 Mar
Durban20:05 → 22:4305:50no05:50holds6 Mar
Dubai22:05 → 00:4306:39no06:38holds6 Mar
Delhi23:35 → 02:1306:43no06:42holds6 Mar
Kolkata23:35 → 02:1305:55no05:54holds6 Mar
Singapore02:05 → 04:4307:14no07:13holds6 Mar
Sydney05:05 → 07:4306:46no06:47holds6 Mar
Suva06:05 → 08:4306:06no06:07holds6 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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