Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2068

Sunday 26 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 136 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 25 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:58 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:24
18:3418:5819:2219:4620:1020:3420:58

0 of 86 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 26 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:57 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:23
18:3318:5719:2119:4520:0920:3320:57

86 of 86 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 22:40 on Sat 25 Aug to 00:26 on Mon 27 Aug.

    2068-08-25T14:39:43Z → 2068-08-26T16:26:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:58–20:24 on the 25th, 18:57–20:23 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 86 of 86 on the 26th.

    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 8132 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2068: Sunday 26 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2068 falls on Sunday 26 August. Caturdaśī runs from 22:40 on Sat 25 Aug to 00:26 on Mon 27 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2068/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 26 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 26 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 26 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 25thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:40 → 09:2619:2788 min19:250 min25 Aug
Chicago09:40 → 11:2619:3485 min19:320 min25 Aug
Jersey City10:40 → 12:2619:3885 min19:370 min25 Aug
Port of Spain10:40 → 12:2618:1993 min18:180 min25 Aug
London15:40 → 17:2620:0081 min19:580 min25 Aug
Durban16:40 → 18:2617:38101 min17:3848 min25 Aug
Dubai18:40 → 20:2618:4490 min18:4390 min26 Aug
Delhi20:10 → 21:5618:509 min18:4989 min26 Aug
Kolkata20:10 → 21:5617:590 min17:5991 min26 Aug
Singapore22:40 → 00:2619:110 min19:1095 min26 Aug
Sydney00:40 → 02:2617:330 min17:33102 min26 Aug
Suva02:40 → 04:2617:580 min17:5899 min26 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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