Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2076

Monday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 468 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 Monday 19 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:52 moonrise
21:4022:0422:2822:5223:1623:4000:04

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 20 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

23:49 moonrise
22:3723:0123:2523:4900:1300:3701:01

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 13:49 on Mon 19 Oct to 16:01 on Tue 20 Oct.

    2076-10-19T05:49:14Z → 2076-10-20T08:00:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:52 on the 19th and 23:49 on the 20th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 19th and is not on the 20th.

    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 28102 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2076: Monday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2076 falls on Monday 19 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 13:49 on Mon 19 Oct to 16:01 on Tue 20 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2076/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 19 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 19thCoveredMoonrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:49 → 01:0100:17holds01:13no19 Oct
Chicago00:49 → 03:0123:47holds00:46no19 Oct
Jersey City01:49 → 04:0123:54holds00:53no19 Oct
Port of Spain01:49 → 04:0100:12holds01:02no19 Oct
London06:49 → 09:0123:00holds00:05no19 Oct
Durban07:49 → 10:0101:08holds01:50no19 Oct
Dubai09:49 → 12:0123:38holds00:32no19 Oct
Delhi11:19 → 13:3123:29holds00:23no19 Oct
Kolkata11:19 → 13:3122:57holds23:50no19 Oct
Singapore13:49 → 16:0101:04holds01:53no19 Oct
Sydney16:49 → 19:0102:03holds02:45no19 Oct
Suva17:49 → 20:0100:33holds01:19no19 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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