Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2026

Saturday 17 January

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 321 minutes.

Decide it for

23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Saturday 17 January

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:25 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:11
05:0105:2505:4906:1306:3707:0107:25

105 of 105 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 18 January

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:26 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:10
05:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:26

0 of 105 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 22:22 on Fri 16 Jan to 00:04 on Sun 18 Jan.

    2026-01-16T16:52:12Z → 2026-01-17T18:34:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:25–07:11 on the 17th, 05:26–07:10 on the 18th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 105 of 105 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 105 on the 18th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one dawn qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19265 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Ujjain, 2026: Saturday 17 January.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Yama Tarpaṇa 2026 falls on Saturday 17 January. Caturdaśī runs from 22:22 on Fri 16 Jan to 00:04 on Sun 18 Jan and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2026/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 17 Jan
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 17 Jan
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 17 Jan
No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/yama-tarpana · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Pauṣa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“K 14 Yama tarpana (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīAruṇodaya 16thCoveredAruṇodaya 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:52 → 10:3405:070 min05:07111 min17 Jan
Chicago10:52 → 12:3405:190 min05:19116 min17 Jan
Jersey City11:52 → 13:3405:230 min05:23115 min17 Jan
Port of Spain12:52 → 14:3404:490 min04:5099 min17 Jan
London16:52 → 18:3405:540 min05:53125 min17 Jan
Durban18:52 → 20:3403:490 min03:5082 min17 Jan
Dubai20:52 → 22:3405:200 min05:20106 min17 Jan
Delhi22:22 → 00:0405:270 min05:27108 min17 Jan
Kolkata22:22 → 00:0404:340 min04:34105 min17 Jan
Singapore00:52 → 02:3405:370 min05:3796 min17 Jan
Sydney03:52 → 05:3404:420 min04:4379 min17 Jan
Suva04:52 → 06:3404:160 min04:1752 min18 Jan
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
yama-tarpana@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s