Ruling · Vasantotsava · 2095

Monday 21 March

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 63 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 Monday 21 March

Taken. Both sunrises qualify; the rule takes the first.

06:07 sunrise
04:5505:1905:4306:0706:3106:5507:19

Holds at sunrise

Sunrise of Tuesday 22 March

Pratipadā holds at sunrise here too. Not taken.

06:06 sunrise
Pratipadā ends 07:08:42
04:5405:1805:4206:0606:3006:5407:18

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 04:42 on Mon 21 Mar to 07:09 on Tue 22 Mar.

    2095-03-21T01:12:11Z → 2095-03-22T03:38:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Sunrise is at 06:07 on the 21st and 06:06 on the 22nd.

    sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 21st and is on the 22nd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both sunrises qualify. Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.

    priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 3784 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasantotsava, Tehran, 2095: Monday 21 March.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Vasantotsava 2095 falls on Monday 21 March. Pratipadā runs from 04:42 on Mon 21 Mar to 07:09 on Tue 22 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/2095/vasantotsava · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 21 Mar
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 21 Mar
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 21 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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:12 → 20:3906:55holds06:54no21 Mar
Chicago20:12 → 22:3906:52holds06:50no21 Mar
Jersey City21:12 → 23:3906:58holds06:56no21 Mar
Port of Spain21:12 → 23:3906:10holds06:09no21 Mar
London01:12 → 03:3906:01holds05:59no21 Mar
Durban03:12 → 05:3906:00holds06:01no21 Mar
Dubai05:12 → 07:3906:22holds06:21holds21 Mar
Delhi06:42 → 09:0906:24no06:23holds22 Mar
Kolkata06:42 → 09:0905:40no05:39holds22 Mar
Singapore09:12 → 11:3907:09no07:09holds22 Mar
Sydney12:12 → 14:3906:59no07:00holds22 Mar
Suva13:12 → 15:3906:11no06:11holds22 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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