Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 2015

Tuesday 3 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 547 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two moonrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The moonrise is read as disc centre, 31′.

Moonrise of Monday 2 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:44 moonrise
21:3221:5622:2022:4423:0823:3223:56

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 3 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:41 moonrise
22:2922:5323:1723:4100:0500:2900:53

Holds at moonrise

Aṣṭamī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 07:50 on Tue 3 Nov to 09:09 on Wed 4 Nov.

    2015-11-02T23:50:26Z → 2015-11-04T01:08:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:44 on the 2nd and 23:41 on the 3rd.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 2nd and is on the 3rd.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 32796 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2015: Tuesday 3 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 2015 falls on Tuesday 3 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 07:50 on Tue 3 Nov to 09:09 on Wed 4 Nov and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2015/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 3 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 3 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 3 Nov
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/ahoyi-ashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMoonrise 2ndCoveredMoonrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:50 → 17:0923:04holds00:53no2 Nov
Chicago17:50 → 19:0922:43holds00:38no2 Nov
Jersey City18:50 → 20:0922:49holds00:43no2 Nov
Port of Spain19:50 → 21:0923:38holds01:15no2 Nov
London23:50 → 01:0922:15no00:21no3 Nov
Durban01:50 → 03:0900:05no01:23no3 Nov
Dubai03:50 → 05:0923:16no01:01no3 Nov
Delhi05:20 → 06:3923:10no00:57no3 Nov
Kolkata05:20 → 06:3922:33no00:16no3 Nov
Singapore07:50 → 09:0900:24no01:59no3 Nov
Sydney10:50 → 12:0900:56no02:14no3 Nov
Suva12:50 → 14:0900:40no02:07no3 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ahoyi-ashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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