Monday 17 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 17:50 on Sat 15 Mar to 19:08 on Sun 16 Mar.

   2014-03-15T15:49:47Z → 2014-03-16T17:08:20Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:39–18:03 on the 15th, 15:40–18:04 on the 16th.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 13 of 143 minutes on the 15th and 144 of 144 on the 16th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

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

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 785 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Sunday 16 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Cairo, 2014: Monday 17 March.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Cairo, Holī 2014 falls on Monday 17 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Sunday 16 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 17:50 on Sat 15 Mar to 19:08 on Sun 16 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 16th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 13 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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