Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 1968

Monday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 713 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 14 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:46 moonrise
21:3421:5822:2222:4623:1023:3423:58

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 15 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:50 moonrise
22:3823:0223:2623:5000:1400:3801:02

Absent 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 10:06 on Mon 14 Oct to 11:57 on Tue 15 Oct.

    1968-10-14T02:05:59Z → 1968-10-15T03:56:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:46 on the 14th and 23:50 on the 15th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 14th and is not on the 15th.

    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 42777 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1968: Monday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 1968 falls on Monday 14 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:06 on Mon 14 Oct to 11:57 on Tue 15 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1968/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 14 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 14thCoveredMoonrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:06 → 20:5700:17no01:20no13 Oct
Chicago21:06 → 22:5723:43no00:50no13 Oct
Jersey City22:06 → 23:5723:51holds00:57no14 Oct
Port of Spain22:06 → 23:5700:17no01:10no13 Oct
London03:06 → 04:5722:48holds00:03no14 Oct
Durban04:06 → 05:5701:23holds02:03no14 Oct
Dubai06:06 → 07:5723:39holds00:37no14 Oct
Delhi07:36 → 09:2723:29holds00:28no14 Oct
Kolkata07:36 → 09:2722:58holds23:55no14 Oct
Singapore09:36 → 11:2700:41holds01:32no14 Oct
Sydney12:06 → 13:5701:20holds02:00no14 Oct
Suva14:06 → 15:5700:45holds01:31no14 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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