Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1951

Monday 22 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 153 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 Monday 22 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:39 moonrise
21:2721:5122:1522:3923:0323:2723:51

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 23 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:41 moonrise
22:2922:5323:1723:4100:0500:2900:53

Absent 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 18:40 on Mon 22 Oct to 21:08 on Tue 23 Oct.

    1951-10-22T10:39:44Z → 1951-10-23T13:07:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:39 on the 22nd and 23:41 on the 23rd.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 22nd and is not on the 23rd.

    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 9193 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1951: Monday 22 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1951 falls on Monday 22 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:40 on Mon 22 Oct to 21:08 on Tue 23 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1951/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 22 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 22 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 22 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 22ndCoveredMoonrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:40 → 05:0823:08holds00:07no22 Oct
Chicago04:40 → 07:0822:37holds23:41no22 Oct
Jersey City05:40 → 08:0822:44holds23:48no22 Oct
Port of Spain06:40 → 09:0800:01holds00:51no22 Oct
London10:40 → 13:0821:48holds23:02no22 Oct
Durban12:40 → 15:0800:59holds01:34no22 Oct
Dubai14:40 → 17:0823:28holds00:23no22 Oct
Delhi16:10 → 18:3823:18holds00:15no22 Oct
Kolkata16:10 → 18:3822:46holds23:40no22 Oct
Singapore18:10 → 20:3800:25holds01:12no22 Oct
Sydney20:40 → 23:0800:56holds01:31no22 Oct
Suva22:40 → 01:0800:25holds01:07holds23 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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