Ruling · Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) · 2094

Sunday 7 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 226 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two dawns

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise.

Dawn of Saturday 6 November

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

05:02 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:51
04:3805:0205:2605:5006:1406:3807:02

0 of 109 minutes covered

Dawn of Sunday 7 November

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

05:03 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:52
04:3905:0305:2705:5106:1506:3907:03

109 of 109 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentAruṇodaya, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 10:37 on Sat 6 Nov to 11:55 on Sun 7 Nov.

    2094-11-06T02:37:28Z → 2094-11-07T03:54:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:02–06:51 on the 6th, 05:03–06:52 on the 7th.

    arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 0 of 109 minutes on the 6th and 109 of 109 on the 7th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one dawn qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 13565 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Naraka Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2094: Sunday 7 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) 2094 falls on Sunday 7 November. Caturdaśī runs from 10:37 on Sat 6 Nov to 11:55 on Sun 7 Nov and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2094/naraka-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 7 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 7 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 7 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/naraka-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Caturdaśī
Kāla
Aruṇodaya
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 14 Naraka caturdasi (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day)” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīAruṇodaya 6thCoveredAruṇodaya 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:37 → 20:5505:31107 min04:320 min6 Nov
Chicago21:37 → 22:5505:40111 min04:400 min6 Nov
Jersey City22:37 → 23:5505:44110 min04:440 min6 Nov
Port of Spain22:37 → 23:5504:2198 min04:210 min6 Nov
London02:37 → 03:5505:07117 min05:080 min6 Nov
Durban04:37 → 05:5503:3320 min03:3285 min6 Nov
Dubai06:37 → 07:5504:470 min04:47103 min7 Nov
Delhi08:07 → 09:2504:530 min04:53105 min7 Nov
Kolkata08:07 → 09:2504:020 min04:02102 min7 Nov
Singapore10:37 → 11:5505:110 min05:1196 min7 Nov
Sydney13:37 → 14:5504:280 min04:2783 min7 Nov
Suva14:37 → 15:5503:560 min03:5689 min7 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
naraka-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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