Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1954

Thursday 26 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 53 minutes.

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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 Thursday 26 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:59 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:24
18:3518:5919:2319:4720:1120:3520:59

86 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 27 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:23
18:3318:5719:2119:4520:0920:3320:57

0 of 86 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 18:06 on Thu 26 Aug to 18:01 on Fri 27 Aug.

    1954-08-26T10:06:04Z → 1954-08-27T10:01:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:59–20:24 on the 26th, 18:57–20:23 on the 27th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 86 of 86 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 86 on the 27th.

    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 3153 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1954: Thursday 26 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1954 falls on Thursday 26 August. Caturdaśī runs from 18:06 on Thu 26 Aug to 18:01 on Fri 27 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 26 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 26 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 26 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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:06 → 03:0119:2787 min19:250 min26 Aug
Chicago05:06 → 05:0119:3485 min19:330 min26 Aug
Jersey City06:06 → 06:0119:3885 min19:370 min26 Aug
Port of Spain06:06 → 06:0118:1993 min18:180 min26 Aug
London11:06 → 11:0120:0180 min19:590 min26 Aug
Durban12:06 → 12:0117:37101 min17:380 min26 Aug
Dubai14:06 → 14:0118:4490 min18:430 min26 Aug
Delhi15:36 → 15:3118:5089 min18:490 min26 Aug
Kolkata15:36 → 15:3118:0090 min17:590 min26 Aug
Singapore17:36 → 17:3118:4195 min18:400 min26 Aug
Sydney20:06 → 20:0117:320 min17:33102 min27 Aug
Suva22:06 → 22:0117:580 min17:5899 min27 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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