Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 2061

Thursday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 147 minutes.

Decide it for

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 Wednesday 5 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:34
17:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:3019:54

0 of 99 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 6 October

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:53 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:32
17:2917:5318:1718:4119:0519:2919:53

100 of 100 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 00:01 on Thu 6 Oct to 21:59 on Thu 6 Oct.

    2061-10-05T16:01:02Z → 2061-10-06T13:59:09Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:54–19:34 on the 5th, 17:53–19:32 on the 6th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 99 minutes on the 5th and 100 of 100 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 8802 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Baoding, 2061: Thursday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2061 falls on Thursday 6 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:01 on Thu 6 Oct to 21:59 on Thu 6 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2061/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 6 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 5thCoveredSunset 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:01 → 06:5918:3199 min18:290 min5 Oct
Chicago11:01 → 08:5918:24100 min18:230 min5 Oct
Jersey City12:01 → 09:5918:31100 min18:290 min5 Oct
Port of Spain12:01 → 09:5917:5496 min17:530 min5 Oct
London17:01 → 14:5918:28102 min18:260 min5 Oct
Durban18:01 → 15:5918:0090 min18:000 min5 Oct
Dubai20:01 → 17:5918:010 min18:000 min5 Oct
Delhi21:31 → 19:2918:020 min18:0188 min6 Oct
Kolkata21:31 → 19:2917:200 min17:1998 min6 Oct
Singapore00:01 → 21:5918:560 min18:5595 min6 Oct
Sydney03:01 → 00:5919:010 min19:0291 min6 Oct
Suva04:01 → 01:5918:050 min18:0593 min6 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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