Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2018

Monday 24 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 18 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 Sunday 23 September

Caturdaśī holds for 18 of 146 minutes of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise, not all of it. Not taken.

06:07 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:32
Caturdaśī begins 08:13:33
05:4306:0706:3106:5507:1907:4308:0708:3108:55

18 of 146 minutes covered, the last 18

Morning of Monday 24 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:07 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:32
05:4306:0706:3106:5507:1907:4308:0708:3108:55

145 of 145 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 08:14 on Sun 23 Sep to 09:48 on Mon 24 Sep.

    2018-09-23T00:13:33Z → 2018-09-24T01:48:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:07–08:32 on the 23rd, 06:07–08:32 on the 24th.

    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 18 of 146 minutes on the 23rd and 145 of 145 on the 24th.

    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 1109 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2018: Monday 24 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ananta Caturdaśī 2018 falls on Monday 24 September. Caturdaśī runs from 08:14 on Sun 23 Sep to 09:48 on Mon 24 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2018/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 24 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 24 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 24 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 23rdCoveredSunrise 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:14 → 18:4806:42145 min06:430 min23 Sep
Chicago19:14 → 20:4806:39145 min06:400 min23 Sep
Jersey City20:14 → 21:4806:45145 min06:460 min23 Sep
Port of Spain20:14 → 21:4805:55145 min05:550 min23 Sep
London01:14 → 02:4806:48146 min06:500 min23 Sep
Durban02:14 → 03:4805:45146 min05:430 min23 Sep
Dubai04:14 → 05:4806:08145 min06:080 min23 Sep
Delhi05:44 → 07:1806:10145 min06:1168 min23 Sep
Kolkata05:44 → 07:1805:26127 min05:26112 min23 Sep
Singapore08:14 → 09:4806:5466 min06:54145 min24 Sep
Sydney10:14 → 11:4805:440 min05:43146 min24 Sep
Suva12:14 → 13:4805:560 min05:55145 min24 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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