Sunday 6 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:26 on Sun 6 Oct to 18:31 on Mon 7 Oct.

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

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:13–18:54 on the 6th, 17:11–18:53 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 89 of 101 minutes on the 6th and 80 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 744 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Budapest, 1985: Sunday 6 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Budapest, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1985 falls on Sunday 6 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:26 on Sun 6 Oct to 18:31 on Mon 7 Oct and covers 89 of 101 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 80 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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