Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1930

Monday 15 September

Determinatein Lima, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 472 minutes.

Decide it for

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12°03′ S 77°02′ W · America/Lima · GeoNames 3936456

The two evenings

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

Evening of Sunday 14 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:40
17:4018:0418:2818:5219:1619:4020:04

0 of 96 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 15 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:04 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:40
17:4018:0418:2818:5219:1619:4020:04

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 04:44 on Mon 15 Sep to 03:32 on Tue 16 Sep.

    1930-09-15T09:43:55Z → 1930-09-16T08:31:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:04–19:40 on the 14th, 18:04–19:40 on the 15th.

    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 14th and 96 of 96 on the 15th.

    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 28307 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Lima, 1930: Monday 15 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Lima, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1930 falls on Monday 15 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 04:44 on Mon 15 Sep to 03:32 on Tue 16 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/lima/festivals/1930/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 15 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 15 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 15 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Lima.

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 15thCoveredSunset 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:44 → 00:3218:0093 min17:590 min15 Sep
Chicago04:44 → 03:3219:0192 min18:590 min15 Sep
Jersey City05:44 → 04:3219:0692 min19:040 min15 Sep
Port of Spain05:44 → 04:3218:0795 min18:060 min15 Sep
London10:44 → 09:3219:1791 min19:140 min15 Sep
Durban11:44 → 10:3217:4897 min17:480 min15 Sep
Dubai13:44 → 12:3218:2494 min18:220 min15 Sep
Delhi15:14 → 14:0218:2793 min18:260 min15 Sep
Kolkata15:14 → 14:0217:4194 min17:400 min15 Sep
Singapore16:44 → 15:3218:0395 min18:030 min15 Sep
Sydney19:44 → 18:3217:460 min17:4645 min16 Sep
Suva21:44 → 20:3218:010 min18:0196 min16 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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