Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1957

Saturday 24 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 179 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 Friday 23 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:03 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:27
18:3919:0319:2719:5120:1520:3921:03

0 of 85 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 24 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:01 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:26
18:3719:0119:2519:4920:1320:3721:01

85 of 85 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 03:05 on Sat 24 Aug to 23:25 on Sat 24 Aug.

    1957-08-23T19:04:30Z → 1957-08-24T15:25:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:03–20:27 on the 23rd, 19:01–20:26 on the 24th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 85 minutes on the 23rd and 85 of 85 on the 24th.

    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 10729 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1957: Saturday 24 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1957 falls on Saturday 24 August. Caturdaśī runs from 03:05 on Sat 24 Aug to 23:25 on Sat 24 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1957/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 24 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 24 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 24 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 23rdCoveredSunset 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:05 → 08:2519:3087 min19:290 min23 Aug
Chicago14:05 → 10:2519:3984 min19:370 min23 Aug
Jersey City15:05 → 11:2519:4384 min19:410 min23 Aug
Port of Spain15:05 → 11:2518:2093 min18:200 min23 Aug
London20:05 → 16:2520:0779 min20:050 min23 Aug
Durban21:05 → 17:2517:360 min17:360 min23 Aug
Dubai23:05 → 19:2518:470 min18:4640 min24 Aug
Delhi00:35 → 20:5518:530 min18:5289 min24 Aug
Kolkata00:35 → 20:5518:020 min18:0190 min24 Aug
Singapore02:35 → 22:5518:410 min18:4195 min24 Aug
Sydney05:05 → 01:2517:300 min17:31103 min24 Aug
Suva07:05 → 03:2517:570 min17:5799 min24 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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