Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2038

Sunday 29 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 13 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 28 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:55 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:21
18:3118:5519:1919:4320:0720:3120:55

0 of 87 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 29 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:53 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:20
Caturdaśī ends 20:32:52
18:2918:5319:1719:4120:0520:2920:53

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 22:19 on Sat 28 Aug to 20:33 on Sun 29 Aug.

    2038-08-28T14:19:25Z → 2038-08-29T12:32:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:55–20:21 on the 28th, 18:53–20:20 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 87 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 757 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2038: Sunday 29 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2038 falls on Sunday 29 August. Caturdaśī runs from 22:19 on Sat 28 Aug to 20:33 on Sun 29 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2038/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 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 Angeles07:19 → 05:3319:2388 min19:220 min28 Aug
Chicago09:19 → 07:3319:3086 min19:280 min28 Aug
Jersey City10:19 → 08:3319:3486 min19:330 min28 Aug
Port of Spain10:19 → 08:3318:1893 min18:170 min28 Aug
London15:19 → 13:3319:5582 min19:530 min28 Aug
Durban16:19 → 14:3317:39101 min17:390 min28 Aug
Dubai18:19 → 16:3318:4290 min18:410 min28 Aug
Delhi19:49 → 18:0318:4727 min18:460 min28 Aug
Kolkata19:49 → 18:0317:570 min17:567 min29 Aug
Singapore22:19 → 20:3319:100 min19:1083 min29 Aug
Sydney00:19 → 22:3317:340 min17:35102 min29 Aug
Suva02:19 → 00:3317:580 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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