Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 1996

Sunday 3 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 217 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 2 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:58 moonrise
21:4622:1022:3422:5823:2223:4600:10

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 3 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:52 moonrise
22:4023:0423:2823:5200:1600:4001:04

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 02:35 on Sun 3 Nov to 05:07 on Mon 4 Nov.

    1996-11-02T18:34:42Z → 1996-11-03T21:07:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:58 on the 2nd and 23:52 on the 3rd.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 2nd and is on the 3rd.

    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 13005 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 1996: Sunday 3 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 1996 falls on Sunday 3 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 02:35 on Sun 3 Nov to 05:07 on Mon 4 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1996/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 3 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 3 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 3 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 2ndCoveredMoonrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:35 → 13:0723:15holds00:08no2 Nov
Chicago12:35 → 15:0722:56holds23:52no2 Nov
Jersey City13:35 → 16:0723:01holds23:57no2 Nov
Port of Spain14:35 → 17:0723:48holds00:35no2 Nov
London18:35 → 21:0722:30holds23:31no2 Nov
Durban20:35 → 23:0700:12holds00:50no2 Nov
Dubai22:35 → 01:0723:28holds00:19holds3 Nov
Delhi00:05 → 02:3723:23no00:14holds3 Nov
Kolkata00:05 → 02:3722:45no23:35holds3 Nov
Singapore02:35 → 05:0700:35no01:20holds3 Nov
Sydney05:35 → 08:0701:04no01:42holds3 Nov
Suva06:35 → 09:0723:50no00:32holds3 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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