Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 1995

Monday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 643 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 Monday 16 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:19 moonrise
22:0722:3122:5523:1923:4300:0700:31

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 17 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

00:14 moonrise
23:0223:2623:5000:1400:3801:0201:26

Absent 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 11:16 on Mon 16 Oct to 13:31 on Tue 17 Oct.

    1995-10-16T03:15:50Z → 1995-10-17T05:31:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:19 on the 16th and 00:14 on the 17th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 16th and is not on the 17th.

    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 38601 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1995: Monday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 1995 falls on Monday 16 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 11:16 on Mon 16 Oct to 13:31 on Tue 17 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1995/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 16 Oct
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 16thCoveredMoonrise 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:16 → 22:3100:38no01:33no15 Oct
Chicago22:16 → 00:3100:17holds01:14no16 Oct
Jersey City23:16 → 01:3100:23holds01:19no16 Oct
Port of Spain23:16 → 01:3100:14holds01:02no16 Oct
London04:16 → 06:3123:48holds00:50no16 Oct
Durban05:16 → 07:3100:43holds01:22no16 Oct
Dubai07:16 → 09:3123:52holds00:44no16 Oct
Delhi08:46 → 11:0123:46holds00:38no16 Oct
Kolkata08:46 → 11:0123:09holds00:00no16 Oct
Singapore11:16 → 13:3101:02holds01:48no16 Oct
Sydney13:16 → 15:3100:36holds01:15no16 Oct
Suva15:16 → 17:3100:19holds01:02no16 Oct
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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