Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1935

Saturday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 145 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 Friday 18 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:33 moonrise
21:2121:4522:0922:3322:5723:2123:45

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Saturday 19 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:35 moonrise
22:2322:4723:1123:3523:5900:2300:47

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 00:58 on Sat 19 Oct to 02:25 on Sun 20 Oct.

    1935-10-18T16:57:58Z → 1935-10-19T18:24:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:33 on the 18th and 23:35 on the 19th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 18th and is on the 19th.

    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 8702 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1935: Saturday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1935 falls on Saturday 19 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:58 on Sat 19 Oct to 02:25 on Sun 20 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1935/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 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 18thCoveredMoonrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:58 → 10:2523:00holds23:58no18 Oct
Chicago10:58 → 12:2522:32holds23:35no18 Oct
Jersey City11:58 → 13:2522:39holds23:41no18 Oct
Port of Spain12:58 → 14:2523:48holds00:38no18 Oct
London16:58 → 18:2521:50holds23:01no18 Oct
Durban18:58 → 20:2500:36holds01:14no18 Oct
Dubai20:58 → 22:2523:17holds00:13no18 Oct
Delhi22:28 → 23:5523:08holds00:05no18 Oct
Kolkata22:28 → 23:5522:35holds23:30holds19 Oct
Singapore00:18 → 01:4523:58no00:47holds19 Oct
Sydney02:58 → 04:2500:31no01:09holds19 Oct
Suva04:58 → 06:2500:04no00:48holds19 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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