Tuesday 29 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:27 on Tue 29 Sep to 19:01 on Wed 30 Sep.

   2048-09-29T13:27:25Z → 2048-09-30T16:00:46Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:59–20:37 on the 29th, 18:57–20:35 on the 30th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 98 of 98 minutes on the 29th and 4 of 98 on the 30th.

   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 227 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Bucharest, 2048: Tuesday 29 September.

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

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2048 falls on Tuesday 29 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:27 on Tue 29 Sep to 19:01 on Wed 30 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 4 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 3 min 47 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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