Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1905

Tuesday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 213 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 Monday 28 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:22
18:3218:5619:2019:4420:0820:3220:56

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 29 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:21
18:3018:5419:1819:4220:0620:3020:54

87 of 87 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 02:06 on Tue 29 Aug to 23:54 on Tue 29 Aug.

    1905-08-28T18:05:48Z → 1905-08-29T15:53:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:56–20:22 on the 28th, 18:54–20:21 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 86 minutes on the 28th and 87 of 87 on the 29th.

    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 12750 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1905: Tuesday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1905 falls on Tuesday 29 August. Caturdaśī runs from 02:06 on Tue 29 Aug to 23:54 on Tue 29 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1905/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 29 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 28thCoveredSunset 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:06 → 07:5418:2488 min18:230 min28 Aug
Chicago12:06 → 09:5418:3186 min18:300 min28 Aug
Jersey City13:06 → 10:5418:3686 min18:340 min28 Aug
Port of Spain14:06 → 11:5418:1893 min18:170 min28 Aug
London18:06 → 15:5418:5781 min18:550 min28 Aug
Durban20:06 → 17:5417:380 min17:3915 min29 Aug
Dubai21:47 → 19:3518:230 min18:2272 min29 Aug
Delhi23:27 → 21:1518:390 min18:3889 min29 Aug
Kolkata23:27 → 21:1517:490 min17:4891 min29 Aug
Singapore01:06 → 22:5418:100 min18:1095 min29 Aug
Sydney04:06 → 01:5417:330 min17:34102 min29 Aug
Suva06:01 → 03:4917:530 min17:5398 min29 Aug
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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