Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1944

Thursday 17 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 231 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 16 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:35
19:4820:1220:3621:0021:2421:4822:12

0 of 83 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 17 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

20:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:34
19:4720:1120:3520:5921:2321:4722:11

83 of 83 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 01:26 on Thu 17 Aug to 03:17 on Fri 18 Aug.

    1944-08-16T16:26:07Z → 1944-08-17T18:16:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:12–21:35 on the 16th, 20:11–21:34 on the 17th.

    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 83 minutes on the 16th and 83 of 83 on the 17th.

    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 13882 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1944: Thursday 17 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1944 falls on Thursday 17 August. Caturdaśī runs from 01:26 on Thu 17 Aug to 03:17 on Fri 18 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1944/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 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 16thCoveredSunset 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:26 → 11:1719:3885 min19:370 min16 Aug
Chicago11:26 → 13:1719:4982 min19:470 min16 Aug
Jersey City12:26 → 14:1719:5382 min19:510 min16 Aug
Port of Spain13:26 → 15:1719:2492 min19:230 min16 Aug
London18:26 → 20:1721:2176 min21:190 min16 Aug
Durban18:26 → 20:1717:3249 min17:32103 min17 Aug
Dubai20:26 → 22:1718:530 min18:5288 min17 Aug
Delhi22:56 → 00:4720:000 min19:5987 min17 Aug
Kolkata22:56 → 00:4719:070 min19:0789 min17 Aug
Singapore01:26 → 03:1720:130 min20:1395 min17 Aug
Sydney02:26 → 04:1717:250 min17:26105 min17 Aug
Suva04:26 → 06:1717:550 min17:56100 min17 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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