Sunday 4 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:08 on Sun 4 Oct to 18:16 on Mon 5 Oct.

   2015-10-04T09:08:22Z → 2015-10-05T09:15:31Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:06–19:44 on the 4th, 18:04–19:43 on the 5th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 96 of 98 minutes on the 4th and 11 of 99 on the 5th.

   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 150 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Daegu, 2015: Sunday 4 October.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Daegu, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2015 falls on Sunday 4 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:08 on Sun 4 Oct to 18:16 on Mon 5 Oct and covers 96 of 98 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 11 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 2 min 30 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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