Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2085

Saturday 18 August

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 264 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 18 August

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

19:08 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:32
18:4419:0819:3219:5620:2020:4421:08

84 of 84 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 19 August

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:31
18:4319:0719:3119:5520:1920:4321:07

0 of 84 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 12:16 on Sat 18 Aug to 14:43 on Sun 19 Aug.

    2085-08-18T04:16:22Z → 2085-08-19T06:43:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:08–20:32 on the 18th, 19:07–20:31 on the 19th.

    pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 84 of 84 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 84 on the 19th.

    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 15846 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2085: Saturday 18 August.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Aghora Caturdaśī 2085 falls on Saturday 18 August. Caturdaśī runs from 12:16 on Sat 18 Aug to 14:43 on Sun 19 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2085/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 18 Aug
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 18 Aug
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 18 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 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:16 → 23:4319:3586 min19:340 min18 Aug
Chicago23:16 → 01:4319:4583 min19:440 min18 Aug
Jersey City00:16 → 02:4319:4983 min19:470 min18 Aug
Port of Spain00:16 → 02:4318:2393 min18:220 min18 Aug
London05:16 → 07:4320:1577 min20:130 min18 Aug
Durban06:16 → 08:4317:34103 min17:340 min18 Aug
Dubai08:16 → 10:4318:5189 min18:500 min18 Aug
Delhi09:46 → 12:1318:5787 min18:560 min18 Aug
Kolkata09:46 → 12:1318:0689 min18:050 min18 Aug
Singapore12:16 → 14:4319:1395 min19:130 min18 Aug
Sydney14:16 → 16:4317:28104 min17:290 min18 Aug
Suva16:16 → 18:4317:57100 min17:5746 min18 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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