Saturday 22 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:03 on Sat 22 Sep to 18:26 on Sun 23 Sep.

   1951-09-22T15:02:45Z → 1951-09-23T17:26:14Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:03–19:38 on the 22nd, 18:03–19:38 on the 23rd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 95 of 95 minutes on the 22nd and 24 of 95 on the 23rd.

   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 1411 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Luanda, 1951: Saturday 22 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Luanda, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1951 falls on Saturday 22 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:03 on Sat 22 Sep to 18:26 on Sun 23 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 24 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

Copy with citation

Who says what

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