Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2008

Friday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 546 minutes.

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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 Thursday 28 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:21
18:3018:5419:1819:4220:0620:3020:54

0 of 87 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 29 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:53 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:20
18:2918:5319:1719:4120:0520:2920:53

87 of 87 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 07:16 on Fri 29 Aug to 05:26 on Sat 30 Aug.

    2008-08-28T23:15:41Z → 2008-08-29T21:26:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:54–20:21 on the 28th, 18:53–20:20 on the 29th.

    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 87 minutes on the 28th and 87 of 87 on the 29th.

    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 32773 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2008: Friday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2008 falls on Friday 29 August. Caturdaśī runs from 07:16 on Fri 29 Aug to 05:26 on Sat 30 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2008/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 29 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 28thCoveredSunset 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:16 → 14:2619:2388 min19:220 min28 Aug
Chicago18:16 → 16:2619:3086 min19:280 min28 Aug
Jersey City19:16 → 17:2619:3486 min19:320 min28 Aug
Port of Spain19:16 → 17:2618:1735 min18:170 min28 Aug
London00:16 → 22:2619:550 min19:5282 min29 Aug
Durban01:16 → 23:2617:390 min17:39101 min29 Aug
Dubai03:16 → 01:2618:410 min18:4091 min29 Aug
Delhi04:46 → 02:5618:470 min18:4690 min29 Aug
Kolkata04:46 → 02:5617:570 min17:5691 min29 Aug
Singapore07:16 → 05:2619:100 min19:0995 min29 Aug
Sydney09:16 → 07:2617:340 min17:35102 min29 Aug
Suva11:16 → 09:2617:580 min17:5898 min29 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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