Ruling · Candra Ṣaṣṭhī · 1936

Monday 5 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 538 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 Monday 5 October

Taken. The only moonrise Ṣaṣṭhī holds at.

21:05 moonrise
19:5320:1720:4121:0521:2921:5322:17

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 6 October

Ṣaṣṭhī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:07 moonrise
20:5521:1921:4322:0722:3122:5523:19

Absent at moonrise

Ṣaṣṭhī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 12:07 on Mon 5 Oct to 10:09 on Tue 6 Oct.

    1936-10-05T04:07:22Z → 1936-10-06T02:08:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 21:05 on the 5th and 22:07 on the 6th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 5th and is not on the 6th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 32264 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Candra Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1936: Monday 5 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Candra Ṣaṣṭhī 1936 falls on Monday 5 October. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 12:07 on Mon 5 Oct to 10:09 on Tue 6 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1936/chandra-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 5 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 5 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 5 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/chandra-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 6 Candra sasthi (Sasthi current at moon-rise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMoonrise 5thCoveredMoonrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:07 → 18:0921:34no22:36no4 Oct
Chicago23:07 → 21:0922:02no23:06no4 Oct
Jersey City23:07 → 21:0921:09no22:13no4 Oct
Port of Spain00:07 → 22:0922:28no23:27no4 Oct
London04:07 → 02:0920:15holds21:21no5 Oct
Durban06:07 → 04:0923:24holds00:18no5 Oct
Dubai08:07 → 06:0921:52holds22:53no5 Oct
Delhi09:37 → 07:3921:43holds22:43no5 Oct
Kolkata09:37 → 07:3921:10holds22:10no5 Oct
Singapore11:27 → 09:2922:37holds23:36no5 Oct
Sydney14:07 → 12:0923:14holds00:11no5 Oct
Suva16:07 → 14:0922:43holds23:41no5 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
chandra-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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