Tuesday 25 August

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Caturdaśī runs from 19:42 on Mon 24 Aug to 22:13 on Tue 25 Aug.

   1908-08-24T17:58:15Z → 1908-08-25T20:29:21Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:51–20:14 on the 24th, 18:49–20:12 on the 25th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Caturdaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 31 of 83 minutes on the 24th and 83 of 83 on the 25th.

   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 1889 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Aghora Caturdaśī, Bucharest, 1908: Tuesday 25 August.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Aghora Caturdaśī 1908 falls on Tuesday 25 August. Caturdaśī runs from 19:42 on Mon 24 Aug to 22:13 on Tue 25 Aug and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 31 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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