Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1971

Monday 11 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 139 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 Sunday 10 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:14 moonrise
21:0221:2621:5022:1422:3823:0223:26

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Monday 11 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:20 moonrise
22:0822:3222:5623:2023:4400:0800:32

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 01:32 on Mon 11 Oct to 01:38 on Tue 12 Oct.

    1971-10-10T17:32:15Z → 1971-10-11T17:38:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:14 on the 10th and 23:20 on the 11th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 10th and is on the 11th.

    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 8320 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1971: Monday 11 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1971 falls on Monday 11 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 01:32 on Mon 11 Oct to 01:38 on Tue 12 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1971/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 11 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 11 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 11 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 10thCoveredMoonrise 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:32 → 10:3823:46holds00:49no10 Oct
Chicago12:32 → 12:3823:13holds00:20no10 Oct
Jersey City13:32 → 13:3823:20holds00:27no10 Oct
Port of Spain13:32 → 13:3823:44holds00:38no10 Oct
London18:32 → 18:3822:20holds23:35no10 Oct
Durban19:32 → 19:3800:45holds01:29no10 Oct
Dubai21:32 → 21:3823:06holds00:06no10 Oct
Delhi23:02 → 23:0822:55no23:57no10 Oct
Kolkata23:02 → 23:0822:24no23:24no10 Oct
Singapore01:02 → 01:0800:05no00:59holds11 Oct
Sydney03:32 → 03:3800:40no01:25holds11 Oct
Suva05:32 → 05:3800:06no00:56holds11 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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