Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2019

Thursday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 125 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 Wednesday 28 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:55 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:22
18:3118:5519:1919:4320:0720:3120:55

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 29 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:21
18:3018:5419:1819:4220:0620:3020:54

87 of 87 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 01:59 on Thu 29 Aug to 22:26 on Thu 29 Aug.

    2019-08-28T17:58:40Z → 2019-08-29T14:25:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:55–20:22 on the 28th, 18:54–20:21 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 86 minutes on the 28th and 87 of 87 on the 29th.

    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 7499 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2019: Thursday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2019 falls on Thursday 29 August. Caturdaśī runs from 01:59 on Thu 29 Aug to 22:26 on Thu 29 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2019/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 29 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 28thCoveredSunset 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:59 → 07:2619:2488 min19:230 min28 Aug
Chicago12:59 → 09:2619:3186 min19:290 min28 Aug
Jersey City13:59 → 10:2619:3586 min19:330 min28 Aug
Port of Spain13:59 → 10:2618:1893 min18:170 min28 Aug
London18:59 → 15:2619:5682 min19:540 min28 Aug
Durban19:59 → 16:2617:380 min17:390 min28 Aug
Dubai21:59 → 18:2618:420 min18:410 min28 Aug
Delhi23:29 → 19:5618:470 min18:4669 min29 Aug
Kolkata23:29 → 19:5617:580 min17:5791 min29 Aug
Singapore01:59 → 22:2619:100 min19:1095 min29 Aug
Sydney03:59 → 00:2617:340 min17:34102 min29 Aug
Suva05:59 → 02:2617:580 min17:5898 min29 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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