Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1924

Thursday 28 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 139 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 Thursday 28 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:55 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:22
18:3118:5519:1919:4320:0720:3120:55

86 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 29 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

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

0 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 15:59 on Thu 28 Aug to 16:35 on Fri 29 Aug.

    1924-08-28T07:59:22Z → 1924-08-29T08:35:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:55–20:22 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 86 of 86 minutes on the 28th and 0 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 8327 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1924: Thursday 28 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1924 falls on Thursday 28 August. Caturdaśī runs from 15:59 on Thu 28 Aug to 16:35 on Fri 29 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1924/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 28 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 28 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 28 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 Angeles23:59 → 00:3518:2488 min18:230 min28 Aug
Chicago02:59 → 03:3519:3186 min19:290 min28 Aug
Jersey City03:59 → 04:3519:3586 min19:330 min28 Aug
Port of Spain03:59 → 04:3518:1893 min18:170 min28 Aug
London08:59 → 09:3519:5682 min19:540 min28 Aug
Durban09:59 → 10:3517:38101 min17:390 min28 Aug
Dubai11:59 → 12:3518:4290 min18:410 min28 Aug
Delhi13:29 → 14:0518:4789 min18:460 min28 Aug
Kolkata13:29 → 14:0517:5791 min17:570 min28 Aug
Singapore14:59 → 15:3518:1095 min18:100 min28 Aug
Sydney17:59 → 18:3517:3476 min17:3461 min28 Aug
Suva19:59 → 20:3517:580 min17:5898 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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