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There are 29 glyphs in line Ca14, but I will save the last 12 of them until line Cb1.

Saad Al Saud 9 10 11 12 13 (311)
March 19 (444) 20 21 (81) 22 23
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5

Beoynd February 29 the difference between the Gregorian day numbers and the manzil day numbers changes from 136 to 137. In a non-leap-year the manzil Saad Al Saud in also ending in March 23, but then this day would correspond to day 82 from January 1.

In a leap year the manzil π day (314) will not correspond to Gregorian day 314 + 136 = 450 but to day 314 + 137 = 451 (March 26):

Saad Al Akhbia 1 2 3 (314)
March 24 25 (450) 26
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 (370) *Ca14-8
Saad Al Akhbia 4 5 6 7 8 9 (320)
March 27 28 29 30 31 April 1 (92)
*Ca14-9 (372) *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11 *Ca14-12 *Ca14-13 *Ca14-14
Saad Al Akhbia 10 11 (322) 12
April 2 3 4 (460)
*Ca14-15 (378) *Ca14-16 *Ca14-17

In an ordinary 365-day long year April 4 would have coincided with Saad Al Akhbia 13 (324):

Nawaa Manzil Begins on Number of days Stars
Ash Shabt (Sagittarius) 18 Al Naam 16 Jan (381) 13 257 Ascella & Nunki (ζ, ς)
19 Al Baldaah 29 Jan (394) 13 270 Al Baldah (π)
 
The Three Saads (< 22h) 20 Saad Al Thabib 11 Febr (407) 15 285 Dabih (β Capricorni)
21 Saad Balaa 26 Febr (422) 13 298 Albali (ε Aquarius)
22 Saad Al Saud 11 March (435) 13 311 Sadalsud (β)
 22h  Sadalmelik (α)
Hameemain (> 22h) 23 Saad Al Akhbia 24 March (448) 13 324 Sadachbia (γ)
24 Almuqaddam 6 April (461) 13 337 Almuqaddam

... γ [Aquarii], 4.1, greenish, on the right arm at the inner edge of the Urn, and the westernmost star in the Y, is Sadachbia, from Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, which has been interpreted the Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding-places, because when it emerged from the sun's rays all hidden worms and reptiles, buried during the preceding cold, creep out of their holes!

But as this word Ah Biyah is merely the plural of Hibā', a Tent, a more reasonable explanation is that the star was so called from its rising in the spring twilight, when, after the winter's want and suffering, the nomads' tents were raised on the freshening pastures, and the pleasent weather set in. This idea renders Professor Whitney's 'Felicity of Tents' a happy translation of the original ...