Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2002

Friday 20 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 559 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 Thursday 19 September

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

06:03 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:30
05:3906:0306:2706:5107:1507:3908:0308:2708:51

0 of 148 minutes covered

Morning of Friday 20 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:04 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:31
05:4006:0406:2806:5207:1607:4008:0408:2808:52

147 of 147 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 17:50 on Thu 19 Sep to 19:47 on Fri 20 Sep.

    2002-09-19T09:49:38Z → 2002-09-20T11:47:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:03–08:30 on the 19th, 06:04–08:31 on the 20th.

    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 0 of 148 minutes on the 19th and 147 of 147 on the 20th.

    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 33554 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2002: Friday 20 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 2002 falls on Friday 20 September. Caturdaśī runs from 17:50 on Thu 19 Sep to 19:47 on Fri 20 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2002/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 20 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 20 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 20 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:50 → 04:4706:39147 min06:400 min19 Sep
Chicago04:50 → 06:4706:35148 min06:3611 min19 Sep
Jersey City05:50 → 07:4706:41147 min06:4265 min19 Sep
Port of Spain05:50 → 07:4705:56146 min05:56112 min19 Sep
London10:50 → 12:4706:420 min06:43148 min20 Sep
Durban11:50 → 13:4705:500 min05:49144 min20 Sep
Dubai13:50 → 15:4706:060 min06:07146 min20 Sep
Delhi15:20 → 17:1706:080 min06:08146 min20 Sep
Kolkata15:20 → 17:1705:240 min05:25146 min20 Sep
Singapore17:50 → 19:4706:550 min06:55145 min20 Sep
Sydney19:50 → 21:4705:500 min05:49144 min20 Sep
Suva21:50 → 23:4705:590 min05:59145 min20 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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