Ruling · Candra Ṣaṣṭhī · 1913

Sunday 21 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 325 minutes.

Decide it for

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two moonrises

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The moonrise is read as disc centre, 31′.

Moonrise of Saturday 20 September

Ṣaṣṭhī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

19:50 moonrise
18:3819:0219:2619:5020:1420:3821:02

Absent at moonrise

Moonrise of Sunday 21 September

Taken. The only moonrise Ṣaṣṭhī holds at.

20:24 moonrise
19:1219:3620:0020:2420:4821:1221:36

Holds at moonrise

Ṣaṣṭhī presentMoonrise, the instant the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 01:15 on Sun 21 Sep to 02:08 on Mon 22 Sep.

    1913-09-20T23:30:39Z → 1913-09-22T00:24:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 19:50 on the 20th and 20:24 on the 21st.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Ṣaṣṭhī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 20th and is on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 19491 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Candra Ṣaṣṭhī, Bucharest, 1913: Sunday 21 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Candra Ṣaṣṭhī 1913 falls on Sunday 21 September. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 01:15 on Sun 21 Sep to 02:08 on Mon 22 Sep and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1913/chandra-shashthi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 21 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 21 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 21 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/chandra-shashthi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Ṣaṣṭhī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 6 Candra sasthi (Sasthi current at moon-rise, 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. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceṢaṣṭhīMoonrise 20thCoveredMoonrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:31 → 16:2420:31holds22:06no20 Sep
Chicago17:31 → 18:2420:00holds21:28no20 Sep
Jersey City18:31 → 19:2420:09holds21:37no20 Sep
Port of Spain19:31 → 20:2421:31holds23:15no20 Sep
London23:31 → 00:2419:21no20:28no21 Sep
Durban01:31 → 02:2422:29no00:31no21 Sep
Dubai03:12 → 04:0520:41no22:15no21 Sep
Delhi05:01 → 05:5420:52no22:22no21 Sep
Kolkata05:01 → 05:5420:20no21:53no21 Sep
Singapore06:31 → 07:2421:25no23:09no21 Sep
Sydney09:31 → 10:2422:18no00:23no21 Sep
Suva11:26 → 12:1921:45no23:39no21 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
chandra-shashthi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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