Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī · 2078

Thursday 27 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 472 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 27 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

22:54 moonrise
21:4222:0622:3022:5423:1823:4200:06

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Friday 28 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

00:02 moonrise
22:5023:1423:3800:0200:2600:5001:14

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 15:02 on Thu 27 Oct to 14:18 on Fri 28 Oct.

    2078-10-27T07:02:08Z → 2078-10-28T06:18:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 22:54 on the 27th and 00:02 on the 28th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 27th and is not on the 28th.

    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 28298 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Baoding, 2078: Thursday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2078 falls on Thursday 27 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:02 on Thu 27 Oct to 14:18 on Fri 28 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2078/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 27 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 27thCoveredMoonrise 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:02 → 23:1800:27no01:31no26 Oct
Chicago02:02 → 01:1823:56holds01:05no27 Oct
Jersey City03:02 → 02:1800:02holds01:11no27 Oct
Port of Spain03:02 → 02:1800:19holds01:13no27 Oct
London08:02 → 07:1823:06holds00:26no27 Oct
Durban09:02 → 08:1801:14holds01:54no27 Oct
Dubai11:02 → 10:1823:43holds00:44no27 Oct
Delhi12:32 → 11:4823:33holds00:36no27 Oct
Kolkata12:32 → 11:4823:01holds00:01no27 Oct
Singapore15:02 → 14:1801:09holds02:02no27 Oct
Sydney18:02 → 17:1802:10holds02:50no27 Oct
Suva19:02 → 18:1800:38holds01:26no27 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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