Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2006

Wednesday 6 September

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Caturdaśī reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day and the rule does not say what then. Say “contested”.

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 Wednesday 6 September

Taken. Caturdaśī reaches neither morning; this is the day it falls on.

05:51 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:25
05:2705:5106:1506:3907:0307:2707:5108:1508:39

0 of 154 minutes covered

Morning of Thursday 7 September

Caturdaśī holds for 32 of 154 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

05:52 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:26
Caturdaśī ends 06:24:37
05:2805:5206:1606:4007:0407:2807:5208:1608:40

32 of 154 minutes covered, the first 32

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 09:54 on Wed 6 Sep to 06:25 on Thu 7 Sep.

    2006-09-06T01:54:03Z → 2006-09-06T22:24:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:51–08:25 on the 6th, 05:52–08:26 on the 7th.

    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 154 minutes on the 6th and 32 of 154 on the 7th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Neither morning qualifies. The day the tithi falls on is taken.

    priority: unstated → tithi-day · margin 1949 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2006: Wednesday 6 September.

    confidence: boundary (absent-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 2006 falls on Wednesday 6 September. Caturdaśī runs from 09:54 on Wed 6 Sep to 06:25 on Thu 7 Sep, and reaches the first three muhūrtas after sunrise on neither day.

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

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 6 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 6 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 6 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:54 → 15:2506:30152 min06:310 min6 Sep
Chicago20:54 → 17:2506:22155 min06:230 min6 Sep
Jersey City21:54 → 18:2506:28154 min06:290 min6 Sep
Port of Spain21:54 → 18:2505:56147 min05:560 min6 Sep
London02:54 → 23:2506:21159 min06:230 min6 Sep
Durban03:54 → 00:2506:06139 min06:050 min6 Sep
Dubai05:54 → 02:2506:02150 min06:020 min6 Sep
Delhi07:24 → 03:5506:0269 min06:020 min6 Sep
Kolkata07:24 → 03:5505:2126 min05:210 min6 Sep
Singapore09:54 → 06:2506:590 min06:590 min6 Sep
Sydney11:54 → 08:2506:080 min06:07138 min6 Sep
Suva13:54 → 10:2506:100 min06:10142 min7 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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