Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1935

Tuesday 27 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 473 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 Monday 26 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:59 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:25
18:3518:5919:2319:4720:1120:3520:59

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 27 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:58 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:24
18:3418:5819:2219:4620:1020:3420:58

86 of 86 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 04:18 on Tue 27 Aug to 06:34 on Wed 28 Aug.

    1935-08-26T20:17:31Z → 1935-08-27T22:34:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:59–20:25 on the 26th, 18:58–20:24 on the 27th.

    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 86 minutes on the 26th and 86 of 86 on the 27th.

    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 28361 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1935: Tuesday 27 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1935 falls on Tuesday 27 August. Caturdaśī runs from 04:18 on Tue 27 Aug to 06:34 on Wed 28 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1935/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 27 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 27 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 27 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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:18 → 14:3418:2787 min18:260 min26 Aug
Chicago15:18 → 17:3419:3585 min19:330 min26 Aug
Jersey City16:18 → 18:3419:3985 min19:380 min26 Aug
Port of Spain16:18 → 18:3418:1993 min18:1916 min26 Aug
London21:18 → 23:3420:025 min20:0081 min27 Aug
Durban22:18 → 00:3417:370 min17:37101 min27 Aug
Dubai00:18 → 02:3418:440 min18:4390 min27 Aug
Delhi01:48 → 04:0418:500 min18:4989 min27 Aug
Kolkata01:48 → 04:0418:000 min17:5990 min27 Aug
Singapore03:38 → 05:5418:310 min18:3095 min27 Aug
Sydney06:18 → 08:3417:320 min17:33102 min27 Aug
Suva08:18 → 10:3417:570 min17:5899 min27 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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