Sunday 26 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:35 on Sat 25 Sep to 18:29 on Sun 26 Sep.

   1948-09-25T17:34:32Z → 1948-09-26T16:28:51Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:08–19:44 on the 25th, 18:06–19:42 on the 26th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 9 of 96 minutes on the 25th and 23 of 96 on the 26th.

   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 545 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1948: Sunday 26 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1948 falls on Sunday 26 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:35 on Sat 25 Sep to 18:29 on Sun 26 Sep and covers 23 of 96 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 9 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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