Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1919

Sunday 24 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 238 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 23 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:28
19:4020:0420:2820:5221:1621:4022:04

0 of 85 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 24 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

20:02 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:27
19:3820:0220:2620:5021:1421:3822:02

85 of 85 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 02:39 on Sun 24 Aug to 01:26 on Mon 25 Aug.

    1919-08-23T17:38:49Z → 1919-08-24T16:25:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:04–21:28 on the 23rd, 20:02–21:27 on the 24th.

    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 85 minutes on the 23rd and 85 of 85 on the 24th.

    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 14306 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1919: Sunday 24 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1919 falls on Sunday 24 August. Caturdaśī runs from 02:39 on Sun 24 Aug to 01:26 on Mon 25 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1919/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 24 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 24 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 24 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 23rdCoveredSunset 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:39 → 09:2619:3187 min19:300 min23 Aug
Chicago12:39 → 11:2619:4084 min19:380 min23 Aug
Jersey City13:39 → 12:2619:4484 min19:420 min23 Aug
Port of Spain13:39 → 12:2618:2193 min18:200 min23 Aug
London18:39 → 17:2620:0879 min20:060 min23 Aug
Durban19:39 → 18:2617:350 min17:3650 min24 Aug
Dubai21:20 → 20:0718:280 min18:2789 min24 Aug
Delhi23:09 → 21:5618:530 min18:5288 min24 Aug
Kolkata23:09 → 21:5618:030 min18:0290 min24 Aug
Singapore00:39 → 23:2618:120 min18:1195 min24 Aug
Sydney03:39 → 02:2617:300 min17:30103 min24 Aug
Suva05:39 → 04:2617:570 min17:5799 min24 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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