Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1906

Wednesday 10 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 682 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 Wednesday 10 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:06 moonrise
21:5422:1822:4223:0623:3023:5400:18

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Thursday 11 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:59 moonrise
22:4723:1123:3523:5900:2300:4701:11

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 10:34 on Wed 10 Oct to 12:37 on Thu 11 Oct.

    1906-10-10T02:33:49Z → 1906-10-11T04:37:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:06 on the 10th and 23:59 on the 11th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 10th and is not on the 11th.

    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 40924 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1906: Wednesday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1906 falls on Wednesday 10 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:34 on Wed 10 Oct to 12:37 on Thu 11 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1906/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 10 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 10thCoveredMoonrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:34 → 20:3723:27no00:22no9 Oct
Chicago20:34 → 22:3723:00no23:56no9 Oct
Jersey City21:34 → 23:3723:07holds00:03no10 Oct
Port of Spain22:34 → 00:3700:14holds01:05no10 Oct
London02:34 → 04:3722:23holds23:21no10 Oct
Durban04:34 → 06:3700:58holds01:44no10 Oct
Dubai06:15 → 08:1823:27holds00:19no10 Oct
Delhi08:04 → 10:0723:38holds00:30no10 Oct
Kolkata08:04 → 10:0723:03holds23:55no10 Oct
Singapore09:34 → 11:3700:04holds00:54no10 Oct
Sydney12:34 → 14:3700:51holds01:37no10 Oct
Suva14:29 → 16:3200:22holds01:10no10 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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