Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 1985

Friday 27 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 21 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 Friday 27 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:10 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:34
05:4606:1006:3406:5807:2207:4608:1008:3408:58

144 of 144 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 28 September

Caturdaśī holds for 21 of 143 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

06:11 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:34
Caturdaśī ends 06:31:52
05:4706:1106:3506:5907:2307:4708:1108:3508:59

21 of 143 minutes covered, the first 21

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 05:21 on Fri 27 Sep to 06:32 on Sat 28 Sep.

    1985-09-26T21:21:29Z → 1985-09-27T22:31:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:10–08:34 on the 27th, 06:11–08:34 on the 28th.

    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 144 of 144 minutes on the 27th and 21 of 143 on the 28th.

    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 1250 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1985: Friday 27 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 1985 falls on Friday 27 September. Caturdaśī runs from 05:21 on Fri 27 Sep to 06:32 on Sat 28 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1985/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 27 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 27 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 27 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 26thCoveredSunrise 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:21 → 15:3206:440 min06:45143 min27 Sep
Chicago16:21 → 17:3206:420 min06:44143 min27 Sep
Jersey City17:21 → 18:3206:480 min06:49143 min27 Sep
Port of Spain17:21 → 18:3205:550 min05:55145 min27 Sep
London22:21 → 23:3206:530 min06:55143 min27 Sep
Durban23:21 → 00:3205:410 min05:40147 min27 Sep
Dubai01:21 → 02:3206:090 min06:09144 min27 Sep
Delhi02:51 → 04:0206:110 min06:12144 min27 Sep
Kolkata02:51 → 04:0205:270 min05:27144 min27 Sep
Singapore05:21 → 06:3206:530 min06:53145 min27 Sep
Sydney07:21 → 08:3205:400 min05:3944 min28 Sep
Suva09:21 → 10:3205:530 min05:520 min28 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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