Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1941

Thursday 21 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 437 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Wednesday 20 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:31
19:4320:0720:3120:5521:1921:4322:07

0 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 21 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

20:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:30
19:4220:0620:3020:5421:1821:4222:06

84 of 84 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 05:28 on Thu 21 Aug to 04:47 on Fri 22 Aug.

    1941-08-20T20:28:01Z → 1941-08-21T19:46:51Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:07–21:31 on the 20th, 20:06–21:30 on the 21st.

    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 84 minutes on the 20th and 84 of 84 on the 21st.

    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 26225 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1941: Thursday 21 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1941 falls on Thursday 21 August. Caturdaśī runs from 05:28 on Thu 21 Aug to 04:47 on Fri 22 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1941/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 21 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 21 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 21 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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:28 → 11:4718:3486 min18:330 min20 Aug
Chicago15:28 → 14:4719:4383 min19:420 min20 Aug
Jersey City16:28 → 15:4719:4783 min19:460 min20 Aug
Port of Spain16:28 → 15:4718:2293 min18:220 min20 Aug
London21:28 → 20:4720:133 min20:1136 min21 Aug
Durban22:28 → 21:4717:340 min17:34102 min21 Aug
Dubai00:28 → 23:4718:490 min18:4889 min21 Aug
Delhi01:58 → 01:1718:560 min18:5588 min21 Aug
Kolkata01:58 → 01:1718:040 min18:0490 min21 Aug
Singapore03:48 → 03:0718:320 min18:3295 min21 Aug
Sydney06:28 → 05:4717:280 min17:29104 min21 Aug
Suva08:28 → 07:4717:560 min17:5799 min21 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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