Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 2002

Sunday 29 September

Determinatein Dakar, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 490 minutes.

Decide it for

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14°42′ N 17°27′ W · Africa/Dakar · GeoNames 2253354

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Saturday 28 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

19:01 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:37
18:3719:0119:2519:4920:1320:3721:01

0 of 96 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 29 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

19:01 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:36
18:3719:0119:2519:4920:1320:3721:01

96 of 96 minutes covered

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 04:47 on Sun 29 Sep to 05:06 on Mon 30 Sep.

    2002-09-29T04:47:15Z → 2002-09-30T05:06:20Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:01–20:37 on the 28th, 19:01–20:36 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 96 minutes on the 28th and 96 of 96 on the 29th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 29411 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Dakar, 2002: Sunday 29 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Dakar, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2002 falls on Sunday 29 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 04:47 on Sun 29 Sep to 05:06 on Mon 30 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/dakar/festivals/2002/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 29 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Dakar.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 29thCoveredSunset 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:47 → 22:0618:4097 min18:380 min29 Sep
Chicago23:47 → 00:0618:3697 min18:340 min29 Sep
Jersey City00:47 → 01:0618:4297 min18:400 min29 Sep
Port of Spain00:47 → 01:0617:5896 min17:570 min29 Sep
London05:47 → 06:0618:4398 min18:410 min29 Sep
Durban06:47 → 07:0617:5693 min17:560 min29 Sep
Dubai08:47 → 09:0618:0896 min18:070 min29 Sep
Delhi10:17 → 10:3618:1097 min18:080 min29 Sep
Kolkata10:17 → 10:3617:2696 min17:250 min29 Sep
Singapore12:47 → 13:0618:5895 min18:580 min29 Sep
Sydney14:47 → 15:0617:5693 min17:560 min29 Sep
Suva16:47 → 17:0618:0394 min18:030 min29 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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