Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 1983

Wednesday 21 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 130 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Tuesday 20 September

Caturdaśī is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

06:03 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:31
05:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:0308:2708:51

0 of 147 minutes covered

Morning of Wednesday 21 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:04 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:31
05:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:0408:2808:52

147 of 147 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 10:41 on Tue 20 Sep to 12:48 on Wed 21 Sep.

    1983-09-20T02:40:52Z → 1983-09-21T04:47:50Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:03–08:31 on the 20th, 06:04–08:31 on the 21st.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 0 of 147 minutes on the 20th and 147 of 147 on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one morning qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7817 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1983: Wednesday 21 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 1983 falls on Wednesday 21 September. Caturdaśī runs from 10:41 on Tue 20 Sep to 12:48 on Wed 21 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1983/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 21 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 21 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 21 Sep
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/ananta-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 14 Ananta caturdasi (covering three muhurtas from sunrise, but one muhurta in Bengal).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103. In Bengal the row asks for one muhūrta from sunrise; that reading is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunrise 20thCoveredSunrise 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:41 → 21:4806:40147 min06:400 min20 Sep
Chicago21:41 → 23:4806:36147 min06:370 min20 Sep
Jersey City22:41 → 00:4806:42147 min06:430 min20 Sep
Port of Spain22:41 → 00:4805:56146 min05:560 min20 Sep
London03:41 → 05:4806:43148 min06:440 min20 Sep
Durban04:41 → 06:4805:49144 min05:4860 min20 Sep
Dubai06:41 → 08:4806:06112 min06:07146 min21 Sep
Delhi08:11 → 10:1806:0824 min06:09146 min21 Sep
Kolkata08:11 → 10:1805:250 min05:25146 min21 Sep
Singapore10:41 → 12:4806:550 min06:55145 min21 Sep
Sydney12:41 → 14:4805:490 min05:48144 min21 Sep
Suva14:41 → 16:4805:590 min05:58145 min21 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ananta-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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