Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1916

Sunday 27 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 65 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 Saturday 26 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:58 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:24
18:3418:5819:2219:4620:1020:3420:58

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 27 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:23
18:3318:5719:2119:4520:0920:3320:57

86 of 86 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 21:30 on Sat 26 Aug to 23:39 on Sun 27 Aug.

    1916-08-26T13:29:31Z → 1916-08-27T15:38:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:58–20:24 on the 26th, 18:57–20:23 on the 27th.

    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 26th and 86 of 86 on the 27th.

    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 3923 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1916: Sunday 27 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1916 falls on Sunday 27 August. Caturdaśī runs from 21:30 on Sat 26 Aug to 23:39 on Sun 27 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1916/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 27 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 27 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 27 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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:30 → 07:3918:2688 min18:250 min26 Aug
Chicago07:30 → 09:3918:3485 min18:320 min26 Aug
Jersey City08:30 → 10:3918:3885 min18:370 min26 Aug
Port of Spain09:30 → 11:3918:1993 min18:180 min26 Aug
London14:30 → 16:3920:0181 min19:580 min26 Aug
Durban15:30 → 17:3917:37101 min17:381 min26 Aug
Dubai17:11 → 19:2018:2590 min18:2456 min26 Aug
Delhi19:00 → 21:0918:5079 min18:4889 min27 Aug
Kolkata19:00 → 21:0917:5930 min17:5891 min27 Aug
Singapore20:30 → 22:3918:100 min18:1095 min27 Aug
Sydney23:30 → 01:3917:320 min17:33102 min27 Aug
Suva01:30 → 03:3917:580 min17:5899 min27 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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