Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1914

Thursday 20 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 118 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Wednesday 19 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:09 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:32
18:4519:0919:3319:5720:2120:4521:09

0 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 20 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:08 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:31
18:4419:0819:3219:5620:2020:4421:08

84 of 84 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 00:03 on Thu 20 Aug to 22:30 on Thu 20 Aug.

    1914-08-19T16:03:07Z → 1914-08-20T14:29:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:09–20:32 on the 19th, 19:08–20:31 on the 20th.

    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 84 minutes on the 19th and 84 of 84 on the 20th.

    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 7106 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1914: Thursday 20 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1914 falls on Thursday 20 August. Caturdaśī runs from 00:03 on Thu 20 Aug to 22:30 on Thu 20 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1914/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 20 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 20 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 20 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 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:03 → 06:3018:3686 min18:350 min19 Aug
Chicago10:03 → 08:3018:4682 min18:440 min19 Aug
Jersey City11:03 → 09:3018:4983 min18:480 min19 Aug
Port of Spain12:03 → 10:3018:2393 min18:220 min19 Aug
London16:03 → 14:3019:1677 min19:140 min19 Aug
Durban18:03 → 16:3017:3373 min17:330 min19 Aug
Dubai19:44 → 18:1118:3216 min18:310 min19 Aug
Delhi21:33 → 20:0018:570 min18:5663 min20 Aug
Kolkata21:33 → 20:0018:060 min18:0589 min20 Aug
Singapore23:03 → 21:3018:130 min18:1295 min20 Aug
Sydney02:03 → 00:3017:270 min17:28104 min20 Aug
Suva03:58 → 02:2517:510 min17:51100 min20 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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