Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1929

Monday 2 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 135 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Sunday 1 September

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:50 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:17
18:2618:5019:1419:3820:0220:2620:50

0 of 88 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 2 September

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:48 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:16
18:2418:4819:1219:3620:0020:2420:48

88 of 88 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 01:31 on Mon 2 Sep to 22:32 on Mon 2 Sep.

    1929-09-01T17:30:32Z → 1929-09-02T14:31:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:50–20:17 on the 1st, 18:48–20:16 on the 2nd.

    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 88 minutes on the 1st and 88 of 88 on the 2nd.

    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 8127 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1929: Monday 2 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1929 falls on Monday 2 September. Caturdaśī runs from 01:31 on Mon 2 Sep to 22:32 on Mon 2 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1929/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 2 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 2 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 2 Sep
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 1stCoveredSunset 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:31 → 06:3218:1989 min18:180 min1 Sep
Chicago12:31 → 09:3219:2487 min19:230 min1 Sep
Jersey City13:31 → 10:3219:2987 min19:270 min1 Sep
Port of Spain13:31 → 10:3218:1593 min18:150 min1 Sep
London18:31 → 15:3219:4883 min19:460 min1 Sep
Durban19:31 → 16:3217:400 min17:410 min1 Sep
Dubai21:31 → 18:3218:380 min18:370 min1 Sep
Delhi23:01 → 20:0218:430 min18:4280 min2 Sep
Kolkata23:01 → 20:0217:540 min17:5392 min2 Sep
Singapore00:31 → 21:3218:090 min18:0895 min2 Sep
Sydney03:31 → 00:3217:360 min17:37101 min2 Sep
Suva05:31 → 02:3217:590 min17:5998 min2 Sep
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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