Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2006

Tuesday 22 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 164 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Monday 21 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:05 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:30
18:4119:0519:2919:5320:1720:4121:05

0 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 22 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:28
18:4019:0419:2819:5220:1620:4021:04

85 of 85 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 23:14 on Mon 21 Aug to 01:01 on Wed 23 Aug.

    2006-08-21T15:13:55Z → 2006-08-22T17:01:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:05–20:30 on the 21st, 19:04–20:28 on the 22nd.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 84 minutes on the 21st and 85 of 85 on the 22nd.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9861 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2006: Tuesday 22 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2006 falls on Tuesday 22 August. Caturdaśī runs from 23:14 on Mon 21 Aug to 01:01 on Wed 23 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2006/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 22 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 22 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 22 Aug
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/aghora-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Śrāvaṇa, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 14 Aghora caturdasi (pradosa vyapini).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunset 21stCoveredSunset 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:14 → 10:0119:3386 min19:310 min21 Aug
Chicago10:14 → 12:0119:4183 min19:400 min21 Aug
Jersey City11:14 → 13:0119:4584 min19:440 min21 Aug
Port of Spain11:14 → 13:0118:2193 min18:210 min21 Aug
London16:14 → 18:0120:1178 min20:090 min21 Aug
Durban17:14 → 19:0117:35102 min17:3586 min21 Aug
Dubai19:14 → 21:0118:4863 min18:4789 min22 Aug
Delhi20:44 → 22:3118:550 min18:5488 min22 Aug
Kolkata20:44 → 22:3118:040 min18:0390 min22 Aug
Singapore23:14 → 01:0119:120 min19:1295 min22 Aug
Sydney01:14 → 03:0117:290 min17:30103 min22 Aug
Suva03:14 → 05:0117:570 min17:5799 min22 Aug
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
aghora-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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