Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1961

Tuesday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 303 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 Monday 30 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:45 moonrise
21:3321:5722:2122:4523:0923:3323:57

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 31 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:39 moonrise
22:2722:5123:1523:3900:0300:2700:51

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 03:48 on Tue 31 Oct to 06:15 on Wed 1 Nov.

    1961-10-30T19:47:49Z → 1961-10-31T22:14:38Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:45 on the 30th and 23:39 on the 31st.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 30th and is on the 31st.

    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 18171 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1961: Tuesday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1961 falls on Tuesday 31 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 03:48 on Tue 31 Oct to 06:15 on Wed 1 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1961/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 31 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 30thCoveredMoonrise 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:48 → 14:1523:05holds23:58no30 Oct
Chicago13:48 → 16:1522:41holds23:37no30 Oct
Jersey City14:48 → 17:1522:47holds23:43no30 Oct
Port of Spain15:48 → 18:1523:46holds00:34no30 Oct
London19:48 → 22:1522:09holds23:08no30 Oct
Durban21:48 → 00:1500:21holds01:02no30 Oct
Dubai23:48 → 02:1523:21no00:12holds31 Oct
Delhi01:18 → 03:4523:14no00:06holds31 Oct
Kolkata01:18 → 03:4522:38no23:29holds31 Oct
Singapore03:18 → 05:4500:05no00:52holds31 Oct
Sydney05:48 → 08:1500:14no00:55holds31 Oct
Suva07:48 → 10:1523:54no00:39holds31 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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