Ruling · Aghora Caturdaśī · 2021

Sunday 5 September

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 440 minutes.

Decide it for

46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Sunday 5 September

Taken. The only evening Caturdaśī reaches.

18:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:39
17:4818:1218:3619:0019:2419:4820:12

87 of 87 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 6 September

Caturdaśī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:10 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:37
17:4618:1018:3418:5819:2219:4620:10

0 of 88 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 10:52 on Sun 5 Sep to 10:09 on Mon 6 Sep.

    2021-09-05T02:51:51Z → 2021-09-06T02:08:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:12–19:39 on the 5th, 18:10–19:37 on the 6th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 87 of 87 minutes on the 5th and 0 of 88 on the 6th.

    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 26383 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Aghora Caturdaśī, Daqing, 2021: Sunday 5 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Aghora Caturdaśī 2021 falls on Sunday 5 September. Caturdaśī runs from 10:52 on Sun 5 Sep to 10:09 on Mon 6 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2021/aghora-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 5 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 5 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 5 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 5thCoveredSunset 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:52 → 19:0919:130 min19:110 min4 Sep
Chicago21:52 → 21:0919:1689 min19:150 min5 Sep
Jersey City22:52 → 22:0919:2189 min19:200 min5 Sep
Port of Spain22:52 → 22:0918:1394 min18:120 min5 Sep
London03:52 → 03:0919:3786 min19:350 min5 Sep
Durban04:52 → 04:0917:4399 min17:430 min5 Sep
Dubai06:52 → 06:0918:3392 min18:320 min5 Sep
Delhi08:22 → 07:3918:3891 min18:370 min5 Sep
Kolkata08:22 → 07:3917:5092 min17:490 min5 Sep
Singapore10:52 → 10:0919:0795 min19:070 min5 Sep
Sydney12:52 → 12:0917:40100 min17:400 min5 Sep
Suva14:52 → 14:0917:5997 min18:000 min5 Sep
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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