Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2003

Tuesday 9 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 300 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 Tuesday 9 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

05:54 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:26
05:3005:5406:1806:4207:0607:3007:5408:1808:42

153 of 153 minutes covered

Morning of Wednesday 10 September

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

05:55 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:27
05:3105:5506:1906:4307:0707:3107:5508:1908:43

0 of 152 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 00:54 on Tue 9 Sep to 00:31 on Wed 10 Sep.

    2003-09-08T16:53:46Z → 2003-09-09T16:31:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:54–08:26 on the 9th, 05:55–08:27 on the 10th.

    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 153 of 153 minutes on the 9th and 0 of 152 on the 10th.

    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 17995 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2003: Tuesday 9 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 2003 falls on Tuesday 9 September. Caturdaśī runs from 00:54 on Tue 9 Sep to 00:31 on Wed 10 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2003/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 9 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 9 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 9 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:54 → 09:3106:310 min06:32151 min9 Sep
Chicago11:54 → 11:3106:230 min06:24153 min9 Sep
Jersey City12:54 → 12:3106:300 min06:31153 min9 Sep
Port of Spain12:54 → 12:3105:560 min05:56147 min9 Sep
London17:54 → 17:3106:240 min06:25157 min9 Sep
Durban18:54 → 18:3106:040 min06:02140 min9 Sep
Dubai20:54 → 20:3106:020 min06:03149 min9 Sep
Delhi22:24 → 22:0106:020 min06:03150 min9 Sep
Kolkata22:24 → 22:0105:210 min05:22149 min9 Sep
Singapore00:54 → 00:3106:590 min06:59145 min9 Sep
Sydney02:54 → 02:3106:060 min06:04140 min9 Sep
Suva04:54 → 04:3106:090 min06:08142 min9 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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