Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1990

Sunday 19 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 86 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 18 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

20:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:33
19:4620:1020:3420:5821:2221:4622:10

0 of 83 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 19 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

20:08 sunsetpradoṣa ends 21:32
19:4420:0820:3220:5621:2021:4422:08

84 of 84 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 00:39 on Sun 19 Aug to 22:58 on Sun 19 Aug.

    1990-08-18T15:39:11Z → 1990-08-19T13:57:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 20:10–21:33 on the 18th, 20:08–21:32 on the 19th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 83 minutes on the 18th and 84 of 84 on the 19th.

    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 5165 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1990: Sunday 19 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1990 falls on Sunday 19 August. Caturdaśī runs from 00:39 on Sun 19 Aug to 22:58 on Sun 19 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1990/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 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 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:39 → 06:5819:3686 min19:350 min18 Aug
Chicago10:39 → 08:5819:4682 min19:450 min18 Aug
Jersey City11:39 → 09:5819:5083 min19:490 min18 Aug
Port of Spain11:39 → 09:5818:2392 min18:230 min18 Aug
London16:39 → 14:5820:1777 min20:150 min18 Aug
Durban17:39 → 15:5817:3397 min17:330 min18 Aug
Dubai19:39 → 17:5818:5140 min18:500 min18 Aug
Delhi21:09 → 19:2818:580 min18:5731 min19 Aug
Kolkata21:09 → 19:2818:060 min18:0583 min19 Aug
Singapore23:39 → 21:5819:130 min19:1395 min19 Aug
Sydney01:39 → 23:5817:270 min17:28104 min19 Aug
Suva03:39 → 01:5817:560 min17:56100 min19 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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