Ruling · Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) · 2025

Monday 13 October

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 678 minutes.

Decide it for

23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two moonrises

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

Moonrise of Monday 13 October

Taken. The only moonrise Aṣṭamī holds at.

23:43 moonrise
22:3122:5523:1923:4300:0700:3100:55

Holds at moonrise

Moonrise of Tuesday 14 October

Aṣṭamī does not hold at moonrise. Not taken.

00:46 moonrise
23:3423:5800:2200:4601:1001:3401:58

Absent at moonrise

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 12:25 on Mon 13 Oct to 11:10 on Tue 14 Oct.

    2025-10-13T06:54:56Z → 2025-10-14T05:40:08Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Moonrise is at 23:43 on the 13th and 00:46 on the 14th.

    moonrise: disc centre, 31′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is on the 13th and is not on the 14th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 40661 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Ujjain, 2025: Monday 13 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī (Ahoi Ashtami) 2025 falls on Monday 13 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 12:25 on Mon 13 Oct to 11:10 on Tue 14 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2025/ahoyi-ashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 13 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 13 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 13 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Ujjain.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/ahoyi-ashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Moonrise
Priority
Paraviddhā
Tie-break
Second day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīMoonrise 13thCoveredMoonrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:55 → 22:4000:15no01:22no12 Oct
Chicago01:55 → 00:4023:41holds00:54no13 Oct
Jersey City02:55 → 01:4023:49holds01:00no13 Oct
Port of Spain02:55 → 01:4000:13holds01:10no13 Oct
London07:55 → 06:4022:45holds00:08no13 Oct
Durban08:55 → 07:4001:16holds01:58no13 Oct
Dubai10:55 → 09:4023:33holds00:37no13 Oct
Delhi12:25 → 11:1023:22holds00:28no13 Oct
Kolkata12:25 → 11:1022:52holds23:54no13 Oct
Singapore14:55 → 13:4001:04holds01:59no13 Oct
Sydney17:55 → 16:4002:11holds02:55no13 Oct
Suva18:55 → 17:4000:36holds01:26no13 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ahoyi-ashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s