Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1937

Tuesday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 553 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 25 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:26 moonrise
21:1421:3822:0222:2622:5023:1423:38

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 26 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:33 moonrise
22:2122:4523:0923:3323:5700:2100:45

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 10:13 on Tue 26 Oct to 08:46 on Wed 27 Oct.

    1937-10-26T02:12:34Z → 1937-10-27T00:45:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:26 on the 25th and 23:33 on the 26th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 25th and is on the 26th.

    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 33173 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1937: Tuesday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1937 falls on Tuesday 26 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:13 on Tue 26 Oct to 08:46 on Wed 27 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1937/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 26 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 26thCoveredMoonrise 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:13 → 16:4623:58no01:00no25 Oct
Chicago20:13 → 18:4623:38no00:45no25 Oct
Jersey City21:13 → 19:4623:43no00:50no25 Oct
Port of Spain22:13 → 20:4600:27no01:20no25 Oct
London02:13 → 00:4623:10holds00:25no26 Oct
Durban04:13 → 02:4600:48holds01:27no26 Oct
Dubai06:13 → 04:4600:05holds01:04no26 Oct
Delhi07:43 → 06:1623:59holds01:00no26 Oct
Kolkata07:43 → 06:1623:21holds00:19no26 Oct
Singapore09:33 → 08:0600:31holds01:22no26 Oct
Sydney12:13 → 10:4600:40holds01:18no26 Oct
Suva14:13 → 12:4600:25holds01:10no26 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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