Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1953

Thursday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 611 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 Wednesday 28 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:23 moonrise
21:1121:3521:5922:2322:4723:1123:35

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Thursday 29 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:27 moonrise
22:1522:3923:0323:2723:5100:1500:39

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 08:34 on Thu 29 Oct to 09:56 on Fri 30 Oct.

    1953-10-29T00:33:51Z → 1953-10-30T01:55:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:23 on the 28th and 23:27 on the 29th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 28th and is on the 29th.

    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 36655 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1953: Thursday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1953 falls on Thursday 29 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 08:34 on Thu 29 Oct to 09:56 on Fri 30 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1953/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 29 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 29thCoveredMoonrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:34 → 17:5623:50no00:47no28 Oct
Chicago18:34 → 19:5623:28no00:31no28 Oct
Jersey City19:34 → 20:5623:34no00:36no28 Oct
Port of Spain20:34 → 21:5600:26no01:13no28 Oct
London00:34 → 01:5622:56holds00:08no29 Oct
Durban02:34 → 03:5600:57holds01:29no29 Oct
Dubai04:34 → 05:5600:02holds00:56no29 Oct
Delhi06:04 → 07:2623:56holds00:51no29 Oct
Kolkata06:04 → 07:2623:19holds00:12no29 Oct
Singapore08:04 → 09:2600:44holds01:29no29 Oct
Sydney10:34 → 11:5600:52holds01:23no29 Oct
Suva12:34 → 13:5600:34holds01:12no29 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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