Ruling · Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) · 2095

Thursday 27 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 167 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 Wednesday 26 October

Caturdaśī is absent from aruṇodaya. Not taken.

04:54 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:39
04:3004:5405:1805:4206:0606:3006:54

0 of 106 minutes covered

Dawn of Thursday 27 October

Taken. The only dawn Caturdaśī reaches.

04:54 aruṇodaya beginssunrise 06:40
04:3004:5405:1805:4206:0606:3006:54

106 of 106 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 09:26 on Wed 26 Oct to 12:00 on Thu 27 Oct.

    2095-10-26T01:26:25Z → 2095-10-27T04:00:21Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 04:54–06:39 on the 26th, 04:54–06:40 on the 27th.

    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 106 minutes on the 26th and 106 of 106 on the 27th.

    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 10031 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Naraka Caturdaśī, Baoding, 2095: Thursday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Naraka Caturdaśī (Choti Diwali) 2095 falls on Thursday 27 October. Caturdaśī runs from 09:26 on Wed 26 Oct to 12:00 on Thu 27 Oct and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2095/naraka-chaturdashi · 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/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 26thCoveredAruṇodaya 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:26 → 21:0005:24104 min05:250 min26 Oct
Chicago20:26 → 23:0005:30107 min05:310 min26 Oct
Jersey City21:26 → 00:0005:34107 min05:350 min26 Oct
Port of Spain21:26 → 00:0004:1998 min04:190 min26 Oct
London02:26 → 05:0005:53112 min05:540 min26 Oct
Durban03:26 → 06:0003:4087 min03:3987 min26 Oct
Dubai05:26 → 08:0004:4257 min04:42102 min26 Oct
Delhi06:56 → 09:3004:470 min04:48103 min27 Oct
Kolkata06:56 → 09:3003:580 min03:58101 min27 Oct
Singapore09:26 → 12:0005:110 min05:1195 min27 Oct
Sydney12:26 → 15:0004:360 min04:3586 min27 Oct
Suva13:26 → 16:0004:000 min04:0091 min27 Oct
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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