Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1953

Sunday 6 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 316 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Sunday 6 September

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:42 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:11
18:1818:4219:0619:3019:5420:1820:42

89 of 89 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 7 September

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:40 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:10
18:1618:4019:0419:2819:5220:1620:40

0 of 90 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 11:11 on Sun 6 Sep to 13:24 on Mon 7 Sep.

    1953-09-06T03:11:12Z → 1953-09-07T05:23:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:42–20:11 on the 6th, 18:40–20:10 on the 7th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 89 of 89 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 90 on the 7th.

    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 18964 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1953: Sunday 6 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1953 falls on Sunday 6 September. Caturdaśī runs from 11:11 on Sun 6 Sep to 13:24 on Mon 7 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1953/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 6 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 6 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 6 Sep
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 6thCoveredSunset 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:11 → 22:2419:1291 min19:110 min6 Sep
Chicago22:11 → 00:2419:1689 min19:140 min6 Sep
Jersey City23:11 → 01:2419:2089 min19:190 min6 Sep
Port of Spain23:11 → 01:2418:1294 min18:120 min6 Sep
London04:11 → 06:2419:3686 min19:340 min6 Sep
Durban05:11 → 07:2417:4399 min17:440 min6 Sep
Dubai07:11 → 09:2418:3392 min18:320 min6 Sep
Delhi08:41 → 10:5418:3791 min18:360 min6 Sep
Kolkata08:41 → 10:5417:4992 min17:480 min6 Sep
Singapore10:41 → 12:5418:3795 min18:360 min6 Sep
Sydney13:11 → 15:2417:40100 min17:400 min6 Sep
Suva15:11 → 17:2417:5997 min18:000 min6 Sep
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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