Tuesday 16 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:06 on Mon 15 Sep to 20:14 on Tue 16 Sep.

   2014-09-15T13:35:34Z → 2014-09-16T14:44:09Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:23–19:57 on the 15th, 18:22–19:57 on the 16th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 52 of 95 minutes on the 15th and 95 of 95 on the 16th.

   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 1043 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Coimbatore, 2014: Tuesday 16 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Coimbatore, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2014 falls on Tuesday 16 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:06 on Mon 15 Sep to 20:14 on Tue 16 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 52 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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