Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 2001

Thursday 8 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 469 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 Wednesday 7 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:22 moonrise
21:1021:3421:5822:2222:4623:1023:34

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Thursday 8 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:31 moonrise
22:1922:4323:0723:3123:5500:1900:43

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 09:18 on Thu 8 Nov to 07:20 on Fri 9 Nov.

    2001-11-08T01:17:41Z → 2001-11-08T23:20:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:22 on the 7th and 23:31 on the 8th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 7th and is on the 8th.

    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 28165 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2001: Thursday 8 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 2001 falls on Thursday 8 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 09:18 on Thu 8 Nov to 07:20 on Fri 9 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2001/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 8 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 8 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 8 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 8thCoveredMoonrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:18 → 15:2000:01no01:10no7 Nov
Chicago19:18 → 17:2023:37no00:51no7 Nov
Jersey City20:18 → 18:2023:42no00:55no7 Nov
Port of Spain21:18 → 19:2000:39no01:37no7 Nov
London01:18 → 23:2022:59holds00:22no8 Nov
Durban03:18 → 01:2001:14holds01:56no8 Nov
Dubai05:18 → 03:2000:11holds01:15no8 Nov
Delhi06:48 → 04:5000:03holds01:09no8 Nov
Kolkata06:48 → 04:5023:27holds00:30no8 Nov
Singapore09:18 → 07:2001:24holds02:19no8 Nov
Sydney12:18 → 10:2002:06holds02:48no8 Nov
Suva13:18 → 11:2000:44holds01:33no8 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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