Wednesday 2 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 19:27 on Tue 1 Oct to 22:03 on Wed 2 Oct.

   2075-10-01T13:56:46Z → 2075-10-02T16:33:24Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:53–19:30 on the 1st, 17:52–19:29 on the 2nd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 3 of 97 minutes on the 1st and 97 of 97 on the 2nd.

   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 178 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Lucknow, 2075: Wednesday 2 October.

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

Say it like this

In Lucknow, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2075 falls on Wednesday 2 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 19:27 on Tue 1 Oct to 22:03 on Wed 2 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 3 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 2 min 58 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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