Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2024

Sunday 1 September

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 594 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 Saturday 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

Evening of Sunday 1 September

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:48 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:16
18:2418:4819:1219:3620:0020:2420:48

88 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 06:11 on Sun 1 Sep to 07:52 on Mon 2 Sep.

    2024-08-31T22:11:20Z → 2024-09-01T23:52:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:50–20:17 on the 31st, 18:48–20:16 on the 1st.

    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 88 minutes on the 31st and 88 of 88 on the 1st.

    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 35638 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2024: Sunday 1 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2024 falls on Sunday 1 September. Caturdaśī runs from 06:11 on Sun 1 Sep to 07:52 on Mon 2 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2024/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 1 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 1 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 1 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/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 31stCoveredSunset 1stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:11 → 16:5219:1989 min19:180 min31 Aug
Chicago17:11 → 18:5219:2487 min19:230 min31 Aug
Jersey City18:11 → 19:5219:2987 min19:2725 min31 Aug
Port of Spain18:11 → 19:5218:1693 min18:1594 min1 Sep
London23:11 → 00:5219:480 min19:4684 min1 Sep
Durban00:11 → 01:5217:400 min17:41100 min1 Sep
Dubai02:11 → 03:5218:380 min18:3791 min1 Sep
Delhi03:41 → 05:2218:430 min18:4290 min1 Sep
Kolkata03:41 → 05:2217:540 min17:5392 min1 Sep
Singapore06:11 → 07:5219:090 min19:0895 min1 Sep
Sydney08:11 → 09:5217:360 min17:37101 min1 Sep
Suva10:11 → 11:5217:590 min17:5998 min1 Sep
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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