Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 1998

Saturday 5 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 322 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Saturday 5 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

05:50 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:25
05:2605:5006:1406:3807:0207:2607:5008:1408:38

155 of 155 minutes covered

Morning of Sunday 6 September

Caturdaśī is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

05:51 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:25
05:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:2707:5108:1508:39

0 of 154 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 00:29 on Sat 5 Sep to 22:09 on Sat 5 Sep.

    1998-09-04T16:28:42Z → 1998-09-05T14:08:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:50–08:25 on the 5th, 05:51–08:25 on the 6th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 155 of 155 minutes on the 5th and 0 of 154 on the 6th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one morning qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19296 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 1998: Saturday 5 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 1998 falls on Saturday 5 September. Caturdaśī runs from 00:29 on Sat 5 Sep to 22:09 on Sat 5 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1998/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 5 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 5 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 5 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/ananta-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 14 Ananta caturdasi (covering three muhurtas from sunrise, but one muhurta in Bengal).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103. In Bengal the row asks for one muhūrta from sunrise; that reading is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunrise 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:29 → 07:0906:290 min06:3039 min4 Sep
Chicago11:29 → 09:0906:200 min06:21155 min5 Sep
Jersey City12:29 → 10:0906:260 min06:27155 min5 Sep
Port of Spain12:29 → 10:0905:570 min05:56147 min5 Sep
London17:29 → 15:0906:180 min06:19160 min5 Sep
Durban18:29 → 16:0906:080 min06:07139 min5 Sep
Dubai20:29 → 18:0906:010 min06:01151 min5 Sep
Delhi21:59 → 19:3906:010 min06:01151 min5 Sep
Kolkata21:59 → 19:3905:200 min05:20150 min5 Sep
Singapore00:29 → 22:0907:000 min07:00145 min5 Sep
Sydney02:29 → 00:0906:110 min06:09138 min5 Sep
Suva04:29 → 02:0906:120 min06:11142 min5 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ananta-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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