Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2048

Thursday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 303 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two moonrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The moonrise is read as disc centre, 31′.

Moonrise of Thursday 29 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:13 moonrise
22:0122:2522:4923:1323:3700:0100:25

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Friday 30 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

00:13 moonrise
23:0123:2523:4900:1300:3701:0101:25

Absent at moonrise

Aṣṭamī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 17:11 on Thu 29 Oct to 19:10 on Fri 30 Oct.

    2048-10-29T09:10:54Z → 2048-10-30T11:09:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:13 on the 29th and 00:13 on the 30th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 29th and is not on the 30th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 18181 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2048: Thursday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2048 falls on Thursday 29 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:11 on Thu 29 Oct to 19:10 on Fri 30 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2048/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 29 Oct
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/ahoyi-ashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMoonrise 29thCoveredMoonrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:11 → 04:1000:34holds01:31no29 Oct
Chicago04:11 → 06:1000:14holds01:16no29 Oct
Jersey City05:11 → 07:1000:19holds01:20no29 Oct
Port of Spain05:11 → 07:1000:06holds00:54no29 Oct
London09:11 → 11:1022:46holds23:55no29 Oct
Durban11:11 → 13:1000:32holds01:06no29 Oct
Dubai13:11 → 15:1023:46holds00:39no29 Oct
Delhi14:41 → 16:4023:40holds00:34no29 Oct
Kolkata14:41 → 16:4023:02holds23:54no29 Oct
Singapore17:11 → 19:1000:54holds01:39no29 Oct
Sydney20:11 → 22:1001:26holds01:59no29 Oct
Suva21:11 → 23:1000:10holds00:50no29 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ahoyi-ashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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