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: 18:42–20:19 on the 29th, 18:41–20:18 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 97 of 97 minutes on the 29th and 20 of 97 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 1194 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Cairo, 2048: Tuesday 29 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Cairo, 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 20 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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