Saturday 27 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:53 on Sat 27 Sep to 18:27 on Sun 28 Sep.

   1975-09-27T23:52:48Z → 1975-09-28T23:27:11Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:04–19:38 on the 27th, 18:04–19:38 on the 28th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 46 of 95 minutes on the 27th and 23 of 95 on the 28th.

   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 1407 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Lima, 1975: Saturday 27 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Lima, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1975 falls on Saturday 27 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:53 on Sat 27 Sep to 18:27 on Sun 28 Sep and covers 46 of 95 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 23 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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