Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1947

Tuesday 7 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 238 minutes.

Decide it for

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44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two evenings

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

Evening of Monday 6 October

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:49 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:29
17:2517:4918:1318:3719:0119:2519:49

0 of 100 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 7 October

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:47 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:27
17:2317:4718:1118:3518:5919:2319:47

101 of 101 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 01:30 on Tue 7 Oct to 23:25 on Tue 7 Oct.

    1947-10-06T23:30:24Z → 1947-10-07T21:24:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:49–19:29 on the 6th, 17:47–19:27 on the 7th.

    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 100 minutes on the 6th and 101 of 101 on the 7th.

    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 14251 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1947: Tuesday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1947 falls on Tuesday 7 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 01:30 on Tue 7 Oct to 23:25 on Tue 7 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1947/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 7 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 6thCoveredSunset 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:30 → 13:2517:3199 min17:300 min6 Oct
Chicago17:30 → 15:2517:2594 min17:230 min6 Oct
Jersey City18:30 → 16:2517:3140 min17:300 min6 Oct
Port of Spain19:30 → 17:2517:540 min17:530 min6 Oct
London00:30 → 22:2518:290 min18:26102 min7 Oct
Durban01:30 → 23:2517:590 min18:0092 min7 Oct
Dubai03:30 → 01:2518:010 min18:0098 min7 Oct
Delhi05:00 → 02:5518:020 min18:0198 min7 Oct
Kolkata05:00 → 02:5517:200 min17:1997 min7 Oct
Singapore07:00 → 04:5518:260 min18:2595 min7 Oct
Sydney09:30 → 07:2518:000 min18:0191 min7 Oct
Suva11:30 → 09:2518:040 min18:0593 min7 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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