Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1963

Saturday 17 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 143 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 17 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:34
18:4719:1119:3519:5920:2320:4721:11

83 of 83 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 18 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:33
18:4619:1019:3419:5820:2220:4621:10

0 of 83 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 16:48 on Sat 17 Aug to 15:59 on Sun 18 Aug.

    1963-08-17T08:48:17Z → 1963-08-18T07:59:07Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:11–20:34 on the 17th, 19:10–20:33 on the 18th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 83 of 83 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 83 on the 18th.

    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 8589 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1963: Saturday 17 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1963 falls on Saturday 17 August. Caturdaśī runs from 16:48 on Sat 17 Aug to 15:59 on Sun 18 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1963/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 17 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 17 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 17 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 17thCoveredSunset 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:48 → 00:5919:3885 min19:370 min17 Aug
Chicago03:48 → 02:5919:4882 min19:470 min17 Aug
Jersey City04:48 → 03:5919:5282 min19:510 min17 Aug
Port of Spain04:48 → 03:5918:2492 min18:230 min17 Aug
London09:48 → 08:5920:2076 min20:180 min17 Aug
Durban10:48 → 09:5917:32103 min17:330 min17 Aug
Dubai12:48 → 11:5918:5288 min18:510 min17 Aug
Delhi14:18 → 13:2918:5987 min18:580 min17 Aug
Kolkata14:18 → 13:2918:0789 min18:060 min17 Aug
Singapore16:18 → 15:2918:4395 min18:430 min17 Aug
Sydney18:48 → 17:5917:2622 min17:2733 min18 Aug
Suva20:48 → 19:5917:560 min17:56100 min18 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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