Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1902

Thursday 23 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 188 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two moonrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The moonrise is read as disc centre, 31′.

Moonrise of Thursday 23 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:07 moonrise
21:5522:1922:4323:0723:3123:5500:19

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Friday 24 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

00:12 moonrise
23:0023:2423:4800:1200:3601:0001:24

Absent at moonrise

Aṣṭamī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 19:59 on Thu 23 Oct to 18:02 on Fri 24 Oct.

    1902-10-23T11:58:38Z → 1902-10-24T10:02:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:07 on the 23rd and 00:12 on the 24th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 23rd and is not on the 24th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 11295 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1902: Thursday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1902 falls on Thursday 23 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:59 on Thu 23 Oct to 18:02 on Fri 24 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1902/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 23 Oct
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/ahoyi-ashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMoonrise 23rdCoveredMoonrise 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:59 → 02:0223:32holds00:35no23 Oct
Chicago05:59 → 04:0223:11holds00:17no23 Oct
Jersey City06:59 → 05:0223:16holds00:22no23 Oct
Port of Spain07:59 → 06:0200:05holds01:01no23 Oct
London11:59 → 10:0222:41holds23:53no23 Oct
Durban13:29 → 11:3200:00holds00:45no23 Oct
Dubai15:40 → 13:4323:22holds00:22no23 Oct
Delhi17:20 → 15:2323:25holds00:27no23 Oct
Kolkata17:20 → 15:2322:47holds23:47no23 Oct
Singapore18:54 → 16:5723:43holds00:38no23 Oct
Sydney21:59 → 20:0200:20holds01:05no23 Oct
Suva23:54 → 21:5723:58holds00:48no23 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ahoyi-ashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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