Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1904

Sunday 2 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 465 minutes.

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38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

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

Evening of Sunday 2 October

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:00 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:38
17:3618:0018:2418:4819:1219:3620:00

98 of 98 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 3 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:59 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:37
17:3517:5918:2318:4719:1119:3519:59

0 of 98 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 10:16 on Sun 2 Oct to 09:19 on Mon 3 Oct.

    1904-10-02T02:15:42Z → 1904-10-03T01:19:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:00–19:38 on the 2nd, 17:59–19:37 on the 3rd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 98 of 98 minutes on the 2nd and 0 of 98 on the 3rd.

    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 27881 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1904: Sunday 2 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1904 falls on Sunday 2 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 10:16 on Sun 2 Oct to 09:19 on Mon 3 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1904/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 2 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 2 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 2 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/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 2ndCoveredSunset 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:16 → 17:1917:360 min17:350 min1 Oct
Chicago20:16 → 19:1917:3198 min17:290 min2 Oct
Jersey City21:16 → 20:1917:3798 min17:350 min2 Oct
Port of Spain22:16 → 21:1917:5696 min17:550 min2 Oct
London02:16 → 01:1917:37100 min17:340 min2 Oct
Durban04:16 → 03:1917:5793 min17:580 min2 Oct
Dubai05:57 → 05:0017:4697 min17:450 min2 Oct
Delhi07:37 → 06:4017:5797 min17:560 min2 Oct
Kolkata07:37 → 06:4017:1597 min17:140 min2 Oct
Singapore09:11 → 08:1417:5295 min17:520 min2 Oct
Sydney12:16 → 11:1917:5892 min17:580 min2 Oct
Suva14:11 → 13:1417:5994 min17:590 min2 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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