Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1902

Sunday 31 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 81 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Sunday 31 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:52 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:19
18:2818:5219:1619:4020:0420:2820:52

87 of 87 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 1 September

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:50 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:18
18:2618:5019:1419:3820:0220:2620:50

0 of 88 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 17:31 on Sun 31 Aug to 15:14 on Mon 1 Sep.

    1902-08-31T09:30:59Z → 1902-09-01T07:14:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:52–20:19 on the 31st, 18:50–20:18 on the 1st.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 87 of 87 minutes on the 31st and 0 of 88 on the 1st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 4848 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1902: Sunday 31 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1902 falls on Sunday 31 August. Caturdaśī runs from 17:31 on Sun 31 Aug to 15:14 on Mon 1 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1902/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 31 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 31 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 31 Aug
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/aghora-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 14 Aghora caturdasi (pradosa vyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 31stCoveredSunset 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:31 → 23:1418:2189 min18:190 min31 Aug
Chicago03:31 → 01:1418:2787 min18:250 min31 Aug
Jersey City04:31 → 02:1418:3187 min18:300 min31 Aug
Port of Spain05:31 → 03:1418:1693 min18:160 min31 Aug
London09:31 → 07:1418:5183 min18:490 min31 Aug
Durban11:01 → 08:4417:09100 min17:100 min31 Aug
Dubai13:12 → 10:5518:2091 min18:190 min31 Aug
Delhi14:52 → 12:3518:3690 min18:350 min31 Aug
Kolkata14:52 → 12:3517:4691 min17:450 min31 Aug
Singapore16:26 → 14:0918:0495 min18:040 min31 Aug
Sydney19:31 → 17:1417:350 min17:360 min31 Aug
Suva21:26 → 19:0917:530 min17:5376 min1 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
aghora-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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