Ruling · Ananta Caturdaśī · 2026

Friday 25 September

Determinatein Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 418 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two mornings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Morning of Friday 25 September

Taken. The only morning Caturdaśī reaches.

06:17 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:41
05:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:5308:1708:4109:05

145 of 145 minutes covered

Morning of Saturday 26 September

Caturdaśī is absent from the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. Not taken.

06:17 sunrisethree muhūrtas on 08:41
05:5306:1706:4107:0507:2907:5308:1708:4109:05

0 of 144 minutes covered

Caturdaśī presentThe first three muhūrtas after sunrise, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Caturdaśī runs from 23:19 on Thu 24 Sep to 23:07 on Fri 25 Sep.

    2026-09-24T17:48:56Z → 2026-09-25T17:37:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:17–08:41 on the 25th, 06:17–08:41 on the 26th.

    udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Caturdaśī must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 145 of 145 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 144 on the 26th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 25065 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Ananta Caturdaśī, Ujjain, 2026: Friday 25 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Ananta Caturdaśī 2026 falls on Friday 25 September. Caturdaśī runs from 23:19 on Thu 24 Sep to 23:07 on Fri 25 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.

ahargana.org/ujjain/festivals/2026/ananta-chaturdashi · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 25 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 25 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 25 Sep
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/ananta-chaturdashi · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Caturdaśī
Kāla
The first three muhūrtas after sunrise
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“S 14 Ananta caturdasi (covering three muhurtas from sunrise, but one muhurta in Bengal).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103. In Bengal the row asks for one muhūrta from sunrise; that reading is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceCaturdaśīSunrise 24thCoveredSunrise 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:49 → 10:3706:430 min06:44144 min25 Sep
Chicago12:49 → 12:3706:410 min06:42144 min25 Sep
Jersey City13:49 → 13:3706:460 min06:47144 min25 Sep
Port of Spain13:49 → 13:3705:550 min05:55145 min25 Sep
London18:49 → 18:3706:500 min06:52144 min25 Sep
Durban19:49 → 19:3705:430 min05:42146 min25 Sep
Dubai21:49 → 21:3706:080 min06:09145 min25 Sep
Delhi23:19 → 23:0706:110 min06:11145 min25 Sep
Kolkata23:19 → 23:0705:260 min05:26145 min25 Sep
Singapore01:49 → 01:3706:540 min06:53145 min25 Sep
Sydney03:49 → 03:3705:430 min05:41146 min25 Sep
Suva05:49 → 05:3705:550 min05:54146 min25 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
ananta-chaturdashi@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s