Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2012

Saturday 29 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 103 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 Friday 28 September

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

06:11 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:34
05:4706:1106:3506:5907:2307:4708:1108:3508:59

0 of 143 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 29 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:12 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:35
05:4806:1206:3607:0007:2407:4808:1208:3609:00

142 of 142 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 10:18 on Fri 28 Sep to 10:34 on Sat 29 Sep.

    2012-09-28T02:17:37Z → 2012-09-29T02:33:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:11–08:34 on the 28th, 06:12–08:35 on the 29th.

    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 143 minutes on the 28th and 142 of 142 on the 29th.

    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 6200 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2012: Saturday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 2012 falls on Saturday 29 September. Caturdaśī runs from 10:18 on Fri 28 Sep to 10:34 on Sat 29 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2012/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 29 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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:18 → 19:3406:46143 min06:470 min28 Sep
Chicago21:18 → 21:3406:45142 min06:460 min28 Sep
Jersey City22:18 → 22:3406:51142 min06:520 min28 Sep
Port of Spain22:18 → 22:3405:55145 min05:550 min28 Sep
London03:18 → 03:3406:57141 min06:590 min28 Sep
Durban04:18 → 04:3405:38147 min05:370 min28 Sep
Dubai06:18 → 06:3406:10136 min06:1023 min28 Sep
Delhi07:48 → 08:0406:1349 min06:13110 min28 Sep
Kolkata07:48 → 08:0405:274 min05:28144 min29 Sep
Singapore10:18 → 10:3406:520 min06:52145 min29 Sep
Sydney12:18 → 12:3405:370 min05:35148 min29 Sep
Suva14:18 → 14:3405:510 min05:50147 min29 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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