Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1948

Monday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 580 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 Sunday 24 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

21:54 moonrise
20:4221:0621:3021:5422:1822:4223:06

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Monday 25 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:04 moonrise
21:5222:1622:4023:0423:2823:5200:16

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 10:32 on Mon 25 Oct to 08:44 on Tue 26 Oct.

    1948-10-25T02:32:09Z → 1948-10-26T00:44:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 21:54 on the 24th and 23:04 on the 25th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 24th and is on the 25th.

    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 34811 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1948: Monday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1948 falls on Monday 25 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:32 on Mon 25 Oct to 08:44 on Tue 26 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 25 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 25thCoveredMoonrise 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:32 → 17:4400:40no01:52no24 Oct
Chicago20:32 → 18:4423:09no00:26no24 Oct
Jersey City21:32 → 19:4423:15no00:32no24 Oct
Port of Spain22:32 → 20:4400:31no01:31no24 Oct
London03:32 → 01:4423:18holds00:46no25 Oct
Durban04:32 → 02:4401:25holds02:08no25 Oct
Dubai06:32 → 04:4423:54holds01:01no25 Oct
Delhi08:02 → 06:1423:44holds00:52no25 Oct
Kolkata08:02 → 06:1423:12holds00:17no25 Oct
Singapore10:02 → 08:1400:50holds01:47no25 Oct
Sydney12:32 → 10:4401:20holds02:03no25 Oct
Suva14:32 → 12:4400:49holds01:39no25 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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