Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 2005

Monday 24 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 67 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 Monday 24 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:34 moonrise
21:2221:4622:1022:3422:5823:2223:46

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 25 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:36 moonrise
Aṣṭamī ends 22:29:15
22:2422:4823:1223:3600:0000:2400:48

Absent 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 20:09 on Mon 24 Oct to 22:29 on Tue 25 Oct.

    2005-10-24T12:08:46Z → 2005-10-25T14:29:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:34 on the 24th and 23:36 on the 25th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 24th and is not on the 25th.

    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 3991 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2005: Monday 24 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 2005 falls on Monday 24 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:09 on Mon 24 Oct to 22:29 on Tue 25 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2005/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 24 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 24 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 24 Oct
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 24thCoveredMoonrise 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:09 → 07:2900:03holds01:02no24 Oct
Chicago07:09 → 09:2923:31holds00:35no24 Oct
Jersey City08:09 → 10:2923:38holds00:41no24 Oct
Port of Spain08:09 → 10:2900:00holds00:50no24 Oct
London13:09 → 15:2922:39holds23:52no24 Oct
Durban14:09 → 16:2901:02holds01:39no24 Oct
Dubai16:09 → 18:2923:25holds00:20no24 Oct
Delhi17:39 → 19:5923:14holds00:11no24 Oct
Kolkata17:39 → 19:5922:43holds23:38no24 Oct
Singapore20:09 → 22:2900:54holds01:42no24 Oct
Sydney22:09 → 00:2901:00holds01:36no24 Oct
Suva00:09 → 02:2900:26holds01:09holds25 Oct
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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