Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2016

Tuesday 30 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 136 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 Tuesday 30 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:51 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:19
18:2718:5119:1519:3920:0320:2720:51

87 of 87 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 31 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:50 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:17
18:2618:5019:1419:3820:0220:2620:50

0 of 88 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 16:33 on Tue 30 Aug to 16:34 on Wed 31 Aug.

    2016-08-30T08:33:00Z → 2016-08-31T08:33:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:51–20:19 on the 30th, 18:50–20:17 on the 31st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 87 of 87 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 88 on the 31st.

    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 8174 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2016: Tuesday 30 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2016 falls on Tuesday 30 August. Caturdaśī runs from 16:33 on Tue 30 Aug to 16:34 on Wed 31 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 30 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 30 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 30 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 30thCoveredSunset 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:33 → 01:3419:2089 min19:190 min30 Aug
Chicago03:33 → 03:3419:2687 min19:250 min30 Aug
Jersey City04:33 → 04:3419:3187 min19:290 min30 Aug
Port of Spain04:33 → 04:3418:1693 min18:160 min30 Aug
London09:33 → 09:3419:5083 min19:480 min30 Aug
Durban10:33 → 10:3417:40100 min17:400 min30 Aug
Dubai12:33 → 12:3418:3991 min18:380 min30 Aug
Delhi14:03 → 14:0418:4490 min18:430 min30 Aug
Kolkata14:03 → 14:0417:5591 min17:540 min30 Aug
Singapore16:33 → 16:3419:0995 min19:090 min30 Aug
Sydney18:33 → 18:3417:3644 min17:3657 min31 Aug
Suva20:33 → 20:3417:590 min17:5998 min31 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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