Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1943

Sunday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 162 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 Saturday 28 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:56 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:22
19:3219:5620:2020:4421:0821:3221:56

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 29 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:55 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:21
19:3119:5520:1920:4321:0721:3121:55

87 of 87 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 00:04 on Sun 29 Aug to 02:38 on Mon 30 Aug.

    1943-08-28T15:04:30Z → 1943-08-29T17:38:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:56–21:22 on the 28th, 19:55–21:21 on the 29th.

    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 86 minutes on the 28th and 87 of 87 on the 29th.

    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 9721 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1943: Sunday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1943 falls on Sunday 29 August. Caturdaśī runs from 00:04 on Sun 29 Aug to 02:38 on Mon 30 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1943/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 29 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 28thCoveredSunset 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:04 → 10:3819:2588 min19:230 min28 Aug
Chicago10:04 → 12:3819:3285 min19:300 min28 Aug
Jersey City11:04 → 13:3819:3686 min19:340 min28 Aug
Port of Spain12:04 → 14:3819:1893 min19:170 min28 Aug
London16:04 → 18:3819:5781 min19:550 min28 Aug
Durban17:04 → 19:3817:38101 min17:38101 min28 Aug
Dubai19:04 → 21:3818:4268 min18:4190 min29 Aug
Delhi21:34 → 00:0819:480 min19:4789 min29 Aug
Kolkata21:34 → 00:0818:580 min18:5791 min29 Aug
Singapore00:04 → 02:3820:100 min20:1095 min29 Aug
Sydney01:04 → 03:3817:330 min17:34102 min29 Aug
Suva03:04 → 05:3817:580 min17:5898 min29 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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