Monday 11 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:19 on Mon 11 Sep to 18:43 on Tue 12 Sep.

   1933-09-11T08:19:03Z → 1933-09-12T10:42:51Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:34–20:05 on the 11th, 18:32–20:04 on the 12th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 91 of 91 minutes on the 11th and 10 of 91 on the 12th.

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

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 629 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 1933: Monday 11 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1933 falls on Monday 11 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:19 on Mon 11 Sep to 18:43 on Tue 12 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 10 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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