Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1960

Saturday 20 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 206 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 Saturday 20 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:30
18:4219:0619:3019:5420:1820:4221:06

84 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 21 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:05 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:29
18:4119:0519:2919:5320:1720:4121:05

0 of 84 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 13:41 on Sat 20 Aug to 15:39 on Sun 21 Aug.

    1960-08-20T05:41:28Z → 1960-08-21T07:38:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:06–20:30 on the 20th, 19:05–20:29 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 84 of 84 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 84 on the 21st.

    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 12365 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1960: Saturday 20 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1960 falls on Saturday 20 August. Caturdaśī runs from 13:41 on Sat 20 Aug to 15:39 on Sun 21 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 20 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 20 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 20 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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:41 → 00:3919:3486 min19:320 min20 Aug
Chicago00:41 → 02:3919:4383 min19:410 min20 Aug
Jersey City01:41 → 03:3919:4783 min19:450 min20 Aug
Port of Spain01:41 → 03:3918:2293 min18:210 min20 Aug
London06:41 → 08:3920:1378 min20:100 min20 Aug
Durban07:41 → 09:3917:34103 min17:350 min20 Aug
Dubai09:41 → 11:3918:4989 min18:480 min20 Aug
Delhi11:11 → 13:0918:5588 min18:540 min20 Aug
Kolkata11:11 → 13:0918:0490 min18:030 min20 Aug
Singapore13:11 → 15:0918:4295 min18:420 min20 Aug
Sydney15:41 → 17:3917:28104 min17:2910 min20 Aug
Suva17:41 → 19:3917:5699 min17:5799 min20 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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