Sunday 25 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 07:46 on Sun 25 Oct to 08:22 on Mon 26 Oct.

   1908-10-25T06:46:19Z → 1908-10-26T07:22:10Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:49–10:10 on the 25th, 06:51–10:10 on the 26th.

   purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 144 of 201 minutes on the 25th and 91 of 199 on the 26th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 3417 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Dyūta Pratipad, Berlin, 1908: Sunday 25 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Berlin, Dyūta Pratipad 1908 falls on Sunday 25 October. Pratipadā runs from 07:46 on Sun 25 Oct to 08:22 on Mon 26 Oct and covers 144 of 201 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the next forenoon for 91 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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