Wednesday 8 March

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pūrṇimā runs from 16:18 on Mon 6 Mar to 18:10 on Tue 7 Mar.

   2023-03-06T10:47:49Z → 2023-03-07T12:40:22Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 15:49–18:10 on the 6th, 15:49–18:10 on the 7th.

   sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 112 of 141 minutes on the 6th and 141 of 141 on the 7th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both late afternoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 11 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Counted

   Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Tuesday 7 March is the day taken above.

   follows: holika-dahana + 1 d

6. 06

   Ruling

   Holī, Lucknow, 2023: Wednesday 8 March.

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

Say it like this

In Lucknow, Holī 2023 falls on Wednesday 8 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Tuesday 7 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 16:18 on Mon 6 Mar to 18:10 on Tue 7 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 7th. It also reaches the previous late afternoon for 112 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 0 min 11 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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