Monday 10 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:07 on Mon 10 Sep to 18:32 on Tue 11 Sep.

   1906-09-10T07:40:11Z → 1906-09-11T10:05:05Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:09–19:40 on the 10th, 18:07–19:39 on the 11th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 91 of 91 minutes on the 10th and 25 of 91 on the 11th.

   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 1480 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Daegu, 1906: Monday 10 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Daegu, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1906 falls on Monday 10 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:07 on Mon 10 Sep to 18:32 on Tue 11 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 25 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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