Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1927

Monday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 696 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 Sunday 16 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:00 moonrise
20:4821:1221:3622:0022:2422:4823:12

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Monday 17 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:59 moonrise
21:4722:1122:3522:5923:2323:4700:11

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 10:39 on Mon 17 Oct to 10:35 on Tue 18 Oct.

    1927-10-17T02:38:37Z → 1927-10-18T02:35:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:00 on the 16th and 22:59 on the 17th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 16th and is on the 17th.

    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 41784 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1927: Monday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1927 falls on Monday 17 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:39 on Mon 17 Oct to 10:35 on Tue 18 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1927/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 17 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 17thCoveredMoonrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:39 → 18:3523:27no00:27no16 Oct
Chicago20:39 → 20:3522:56no00:00no16 Oct
Jersey City21:39 → 21:3523:03no00:06no16 Oct
Port of Spain22:39 → 22:3500:21no01:15no16 Oct
London02:39 → 02:3522:09holds23:17no17 Oct
Durban04:39 → 04:3501:17holds02:02no17 Oct
Dubai06:39 → 06:3523:47holds00:44no17 Oct
Delhi08:09 → 08:0523:37holds00:35no17 Oct
Kolkata08:09 → 08:0523:05holds00:02no17 Oct
Singapore09:39 → 09:3500:12holds01:05no17 Oct
Sydney12:39 → 12:3501:11holds01:57no17 Oct
Suva14:39 → 14:3500:40holds01:30no17 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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