Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1938

Sunday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 281 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 Saturday 15 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:30 moonrise
21:1821:4222:0622:3022:5423:1823:42

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 16 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:37 moonrise
22:2522:4923:1323:3700:0100:2500:49

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 06:29 on Sun 16 Oct to 04:18 on Mon 17 Oct.

    1938-10-15T22:29:06Z → 1938-10-16T20:18:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:30 on the 15th and 23:37 on the 16th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 15th and is on the 16th.

    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 16884 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1938: Sunday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1938 falls on Sunday 16 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 06:29 on Sun 16 Oct to 04:18 on Mon 17 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1938/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 16 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 15thCoveredMoonrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:29 → 12:1822:58holds00:04no15 Oct
Chicago16:29 → 14:1822:33holds23:42no15 Oct
Jersey City17:29 → 15:1822:39holds23:48no15 Oct
Port of Spain18:29 → 16:1823:38holds00:36no15 Oct
London22:29 → 20:1821:57no23:11no15 Oct
Durban00:29 → 22:1800:13no01:01no15 Oct
Dubai02:29 → 00:1823:09no00:12holds16 Oct
Delhi03:59 → 01:4823:01no00:05holds16 Oct
Kolkata03:59 → 01:4822:25no23:27holds16 Oct
Singapore05:49 → 03:3823:42no00:39holds16 Oct
Sydney08:29 → 06:1800:03no00:51holds16 Oct
Suva10:29 → 08:1823:41no00:34holds16 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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