Ruling · Candra Ṣaṣṭhī · 1955

Thursday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 329 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 Thursday 6 October

Taken. The only moonrise Ṣaṣṭhī holds at.

21:00 moonrise
19:4820:1220:3621:0021:2421:4822:12

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Friday 7 October

Ṣaṣṭhī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:03 moonrise
20:5121:1521:3922:0322:2722:5123:15

Absent at moonrise

Ṣaṣṭhī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:31 on Thu 6 Oct to 13:12 on Fri 7 Oct.

    1955-10-06T07:30:55Z → 1955-10-07T05:11:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 21:00 on the 6th and 22:03 on the 7th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 6th and is not on the 7th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 19758 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Candra Ṣaṣṭhī, Baoding, 1955: Thursday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Candra Ṣaṣṭhī 1955 falls on Thursday 6 October. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 15:31 on Thu 6 Oct to 13:12 on Fri 7 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/chandra-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 6 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/chandra-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 6 Candra sasthi (Sasthi current at moon-rise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMoonrise 6thCoveredMoonrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:31 → 21:1221:29no22:33no5 Oct
Chicago02:31 → 00:1221:58holds23:04no6 Oct
Jersey City03:31 → 01:1222:05holds23:11no6 Oct
Port of Spain03:31 → 01:1222:22holds23:23no6 Oct
London07:31 → 05:1220:12holds21:19no6 Oct
Durban09:31 → 07:1223:14holds00:11no6 Oct
Dubai11:31 → 09:1221:46holds22:48no6 Oct
Delhi13:01 → 10:4221:37holds22:39no6 Oct
Kolkata13:01 → 10:4221:04holds22:05no6 Oct
Singapore15:01 → 12:4222:39holds23:40no6 Oct
Sydney17:31 → 15:1223:04holds00:02no6 Oct
Suva19:31 → 17:1222:34holds23:34no6 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
chandra-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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