Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 1994

Sunday 4 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 508 minutes.

Decide it for

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 3 September

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:46 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:15
18:2218:4619:1019:3419:5820:2220:46

0 of 88 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 4 September

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:45 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:13
18:2118:4519:0919:3319:5720:2120:45

89 of 89 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 06:20 on Sun 4 Sep to 04:42 on Mon 5 Sep.

    1994-09-03T22:19:44Z → 1994-09-04T20:41:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:46–20:15 on the 3rd, 18:45–20:13 on the 4th.

    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 88 minutes on the 3rd and 89 of 89 on the 4th.

    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 30494 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1994: Sunday 4 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 1994 falls on Sunday 4 September. Caturdaśī runs from 06:20 on Sun 4 Sep to 04:42 on Mon 5 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1994/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 4 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 4 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 4 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/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 3rdCoveredSunset 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:20 → 13:4219:1690 min19:150 min3 Sep
Chicago17:20 → 15:4219:2188 min19:190 min3 Sep
Jersey City18:20 → 16:4219:2588 min19:240 min3 Sep
Port of Spain18:20 → 16:4218:1488 min18:140 min3 Sep
London23:20 → 21:4219:430 min19:4085 min4 Sep
Durban00:20 → 22:4217:420 min17:4299 min4 Sep
Dubai02:20 → 00:4218:360 min18:3592 min4 Sep
Delhi03:50 → 02:1218:410 min18:3991 min4 Sep
Kolkata03:50 → 02:1217:520 min17:5192 min4 Sep
Singapore06:20 → 04:4219:080 min19:0795 min4 Sep
Sydney08:20 → 06:4217:380 min17:39100 min4 Sep
Suva10:20 → 08:4217:590 min17:5998 min4 Sep
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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