Monday 7 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:26 on Sun 6 Oct to 19:31 on Mon 7 Oct.

   1985-10-06T16:25:51Z → 1985-10-07T17:31:07Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:47–19:28 on the 6th, 17:46–19:26 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 62 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

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 285 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 1985: Monday 7 October.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1985 falls on Monday 7 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:26 on Sun 6 Oct to 19:31 on Mon 7 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 62 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 4 min 45 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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