Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1926

Thursday 28 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 457 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 27 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:25 moonrise
21:1321:3722:0122:2522:4923:1323:37

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Thursday 28 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:22 moonrise
22:1022:3422:5823:2223:4600:1000:34

Holds 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 06:02 on Thu 28 Oct to 07:59 on Fri 29 Oct.

    1926-10-27T22:02:24Z → 1926-10-28T23:59:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:25 on the 27th and 23:22 on the 28th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 27th and is on the 28th.

    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 27429 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1926: Thursday 28 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1926 falls on Thursday 28 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 06:02 on Thu 28 Oct to 07:59 on Fri 29 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1926/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 28 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 28 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 28 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 27thCoveredMoonrise 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:02 → 15:5922:49holds23:45no27 Oct
Chicago16:02 → 17:5922:21holds23:19no27 Oct
Jersey City17:02 → 18:5922:28holds23:26no27 Oct
Port of Spain18:02 → 19:5923:41holds00:31no27 Oct
London22:02 → 23:5921:38no22:41holds28 Oct
Durban00:02 → 01:5900:32holds01:15holds28 Oct
Dubai02:02 → 03:5923:09no00:03holds28 Oct
Delhi03:32 → 05:2923:00no23:55holds28 Oct
Kolkata03:32 → 05:2922:27no23:20holds28 Oct
Singapore05:02 → 06:5923:32no00:21holds28 Oct
Sydney08:02 → 09:5900:25no01:09holds28 Oct
Suva10:02 → 11:5923:58no00:45holds28 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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