Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2072

Saturday 5 March

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 534 minutes.

Decide it for

35°42′ N 51°25′ E · Asia/Tehran · GeoNames 112931

The two sunrises

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

Sunrise of Friday 4 March

Pratipadā does not hold at sunrise. Not taken.

06:30 sunrise
05:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:1807:42

Absent at sunrise

Sunrise of Saturday 5 March

Taken. The only sunrise Pratipadā holds at.

06:29 sunrise
05:1705:4106:0506:2906:5307:1707:41

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 18:48 on Fri 4 Mar to 15:23 on Sat 5 Mar.

    2072-03-04T15:18:26Z → 2072-03-05T11:52:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:30 on the 4th and 06:29 on the 5th.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 4th and is on the 5th.

    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 32058 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Tehran, 2072: Saturday 5 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vasantotsava 2072 falls on Saturday 5 March. Pratipadā runs from 18:48 on Fri 4 Mar to 15:23 on Sat 5 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/2072/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 5 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 5 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 5 Mar
No institution has a recorded ruling for Tehran.

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 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:18 → 03:5306:17no06:16no4 Mar
Chicago09:18 → 05:5306:20no06:18no4 Mar
Jersey City10:18 → 06:5306:25no06:23holds5 Mar
Port of Spain11:18 → 07:5306:19no06:19holds5 Mar
London15:18 → 11:5306:38no06:36holds5 Mar
Durban17:18 → 13:5305:50no05:50holds5 Mar
Dubai19:18 → 15:5306:39no06:38holds5 Mar
Delhi20:48 → 17:2306:43no06:42holds5 Mar
Kolkata20:48 → 17:2305:55no05:54holds5 Mar
Singapore23:18 → 19:5307:14no07:13holds5 Mar
Sydney02:18 → 22:5306:46no06:47holds5 Mar
Suva03:18 → 23:5306:06no06:07holds5 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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