Saturday 23 August

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Caturdaśī runs from 17:19 on Sat 23 Aug to 19:46 on Sun 24 Aug.

   2014-08-23T09:19:07Z → 2014-08-24T11:46:09Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:02–20:27 on the 23rd, 19:01–20:26 on the 24th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 85 of 85 minutes on the 23rd and 45 of 85 on the 24th.

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

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2402 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2014: Saturday 23 August.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2014 falls on Saturday 23 August. Caturdaśī runs from 17:19 on Sat 23 Aug to 19:46 on Sun 24 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 45 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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