Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1993

Sunday 7 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 108 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 Saturday 6 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:59 moonrise
21:4722:1122:3522:5923:2323:4700:11

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 7 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

00:05 moonrise
22:5323:1723:4100:0500:2900:5301:17

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 03:09 on Sun 7 Nov to 01:54 on Mon 8 Nov.

    1993-11-06T19:08:51Z → 1993-11-07T17:53:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:59 on the 6th and 00:05 on the 7th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 6th and is on the 7th.

    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 6502 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1993: Sunday 7 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1993 falls on Sunday 7 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 03:09 on Sun 7 Nov to 01:54 on Mon 8 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1993/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 7 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 7 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 7 Nov
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 6thCoveredMoonrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:09 → 09:5423:23holds00:27no6 Nov
Chicago13:09 → 11:5423:04holds00:13no6 Nov
Jersey City14:09 → 12:5423:09holds00:17no6 Nov
Port of Spain15:09 → 13:5423:51holds00:45no6 Nov
London19:09 → 17:5422:37holds23:54no6 Nov
Durban21:09 → 19:5400:09holds00:48no6 Nov
Dubai23:09 → 21:5423:30holds00:30no6 Nov
Delhi00:39 → 23:2423:24no00:25no6 Nov
Kolkata00:39 → 23:2422:45no23:44no6 Nov
Singapore03:09 → 01:5400:34no01:25holds7 Nov
Sydney06:09 → 04:5401:01no01:39holds7 Nov
Suva07:09 → 05:5423:47no00:32holds7 Nov
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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