Wednesday 9 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:17 on Wed 9 Sep to 19:01 on Thu 10 Sep.

   1925-09-09T11:24:19Z → 1925-09-10T13:08:03Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:55–19:28 on the 9th, 17:54–19:27 on the 10th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 9th and 67 of 93 on the 10th.

   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 1576 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Chattogram, 1925: Wednesday 9 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Chattogram, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1925 falls on Wednesday 9 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:17 on Wed 9 Sep to 19:01 on Thu 10 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 67 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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