Thursday 26 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:42 on Thu 26 Sep to 20:10 on Fri 27 Sep.

   2013-09-26T14:42:18Z → 2013-09-27T17:09:46Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:05–20:42 on the 26th, 19:03–20:40 on the 27th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 96 of 96 minutes on the 26th and 66 of 97 on the 27th.

   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 1834 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2013: Thursday 26 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2013 falls on Thursday 26 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:42 on Thu 26 Sep to 20:10 on Fri 27 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 66 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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