Friday 25 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:16 on Thu 24 Sep to 21:22 on Fri 25 Sep.

   1959-09-24T13:15:57Z → 1959-09-25T15:22:06Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:48–19:23 on the 24th, 17:47–19:22 on the 25th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 7 of 95 minutes on the 24th and 95 of 95 on the 25th.

   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 427 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Chattogram, 1959: Friday 25 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Chattogram, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1959 falls on Friday 25 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:16 on Thu 24 Sep to 21:22 on Fri 25 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 7 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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