Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1908

Thursday 17 September

Determinatein Beirut, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 291 minutes.

Decide it for

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33°54′ N 35°30′ E · Asia/Beirut · GeoNames 276781

The two evenings

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

Evening of Wednesday 16 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:44 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:2019:44

0 of 93 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 17 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:42 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
17:1817:4218:0618:3018:5419:1819:42

93 of 93 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 00:08 on Thu 17 Sep to 01:11 on Fri 18 Sep.

    1908-09-16T22:07:35Z → 1908-09-17T23:10:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:44–19:17 on the 16th, 17:42–19:16 on the 17th.

    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 93 minutes on the 16th and 93 of 93 on the 17th.

    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 17444 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Beirut, 1908: Thursday 17 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Beirut, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1908 falls on Thursday 17 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 00:08 on Thu 17 Sep to 01:11 on Fri 18 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/beirut/festivals/1908/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 17 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 17 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 17 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Beirut.

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 16thCoveredSunset 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:08 → 15:1117:5893 min17:570 min16 Sep
Chicago16:08 → 17:1117:5993 min17:570 min16 Sep
Jersey City17:08 → 18:1118:0493 min18:028 min16 Sep
Port of Spain18:08 → 19:1118:0693 min18:0565 min16 Sep
London22:08 → 23:1118:130 min18:1192 min17 Sep
Durban00:08 → 01:1117:480 min17:4996 min17 Sep
Dubai01:49 → 02:5218:030 min18:0294 min17 Sep
Delhi03:38 → 04:4118:250 min18:2494 min17 Sep
Kolkata03:38 → 04:4117:390 min17:3894 min17 Sep
Singapore05:08 → 06:1118:030 min18:0295 min17 Sep
Sydney08:08 → 09:1117:460 min17:4797 min17 Sep
Suva10:03 → 11:0617:560 min17:5696 min17 Sep
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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