Ruling · Yama Tarpaṇa · 2027

Friday 5 February

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 566 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 Thursday 4 February

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:23 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:06
04:5905:2305:4706:1106:3506:5907:23

0 of 103 minutes covered

Dawn of Friday 5 February

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:23 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 07:06
04:5905:2305:4706:1106:3506:5907:23

103 of 103 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 16:32 on Thu 4 Feb to 19:06 on Fri 5 Feb.

    2027-02-04T11:01:49Z → 2027-02-05T13:35:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:23–07:06 on the 4th, 05:23–07:06 on the 5th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 103 minutes on the 4th and 103 of 103 on the 5th.

    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 33950 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Yama Tarpaṇa, Ujjain, 2027: Friday 5 February.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Yama Tarpaṇa 2027 falls on Friday 5 February. Caturdaśī runs from 16:32 on Thu 4 Feb to 19:06 on Fri 5 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2027/yama-tarpana · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 5 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 5 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 5 Feb
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 4thCoveredAruṇodaya 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:02 → 05:3605:01107 min05:0035 min4 Feb
Chicago05:02 → 07:3605:09111 min05:08111 min4 Feb
Jersey City06:02 → 08:3605:1362 min05:13110 min5 Feb
Port of Spain07:02 → 09:3604:510 min04:5198 min5 Feb
London11:02 → 13:3605:370 min05:36117 min5 Feb
Durban13:02 → 15:3604:030 min04:0385 min5 Feb
Dubai15:02 → 17:3605:170 min05:17103 min5 Feb
Delhi16:32 → 19:0605:230 min05:23105 min5 Feb
Kolkata16:32 → 19:0604:320 min04:32102 min5 Feb
Singapore19:02 → 21:3605:410 min05:4196 min5 Feb
Sydney22:02 → 00:3604:570 min04:5783 min5 Feb
Suva23:02 → 01:3604:250 min04:2689 min5 Feb
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