Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2064

Sunday 2 November

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 3 min 46 s away. Say “contested”.

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 Saturday 1 November

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

22:47 moonrise
21:3521:5922:2322:4723:1123:3523:59

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 2 November

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:56 moonrise
Aṣṭamī ends 23:59:58
22:4423:0823:3223:5600:2000:4401:08

Holds 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 00:39 on Sun 2 Nov to 00:00 on Sun 2 Nov.

    2064-11-01T16:39:17Z → 2064-11-02T15:59:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:47 on the 1st and 23:56 on the 2nd.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 1st and is on the 2nd.

    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 226 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2064: Sunday 2 November.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2064 falls on Sunday 2 November. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:39 on Sun 2 Nov to 00:00 on Sun 2 Nov and is current at moonrise that day. It is 3 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2064/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 2 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 2 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 2 Nov
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 1stCoveredMoonrise 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:39 → 08:0000:16holds00:23no1 Nov
Chicago11:39 → 10:0023:51holds00:04no1 Nov
Jersey City12:39 → 11:0023:57holds00:08no1 Nov
Port of Spain12:39 → 12:0023:56holds00:51no1 Nov
London16:39 → 16:0022:13holds23:35no1 Nov
Durban18:39 → 18:0000:34holds01:11no1 Nov
Dubai20:39 → 20:0023:28holds00:29no1 Nov
Delhi22:09 → 21:3023:20holds00:23no1 Nov
Kolkata22:09 → 21:3022:45holds23:44no1 Nov
Singapore00:39 → 00:0000:44holds01:35no1 Nov
Sydney03:39 → 03:0001:29no02:05holds2 Nov
Suva04:39 → 04:0000:06no00:50holds2 Nov
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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