Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1929

Friday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 238 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 Thursday 24 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:08 moonrise
20:5621:2021:4422:0822:3222:5623:20

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Friday 25 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:20 moonrise
22:0822:3222:5623:2023:4400:0800:32

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 05:26 on Fri 25 Oct to 03:18 on Sat 26 Oct.

    1929-10-24T21:26:21Z → 1929-10-25T19:18:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:08 on the 24th and 23:20 on the 25th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 24th and is on the 25th.

    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 14274 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1929: Friday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1929 falls on Friday 25 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 05:26 on Fri 25 Oct to 03:18 on Sat 26 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1929/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 25 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 24thCoveredMoonrise 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:26 → 11:1822:45holds23:55no24 Oct
Chicago15:26 → 13:1822:10holds23:25no24 Oct
Jersey City16:26 → 14:1822:17holds23:32no24 Oct
Port of Spain17:26 → 15:1823:43holds00:45no24 Oct
London21:26 → 19:1821:13no22:36no24 Oct
Durban23:26 → 21:1800:47holds01:36no24 Oct
Dubai01:26 → 23:1823:02no00:09no24 Oct
Delhi02:56 → 00:4822:51no23:59holds25 Oct
Kolkata02:56 → 00:4822:20no23:26holds25 Oct
Singapore04:26 → 02:1823:33no00:33holds25 Oct
Sydney07:26 → 05:1800:41no01:31holds25 Oct
Suva09:26 → 07:1800:04no01:00holds25 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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