Saturday 14 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:19 on Sat 14 Sep to 19:40 on Sun 15 Sep.

   1968-09-14T07:18:55Z → 1968-09-15T09:39:39Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:09–19:47 on the 14th, 18:10–19:47 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 98 of 98 minutes on the 14th and 90 of 97 on the 15th.

   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 463 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Melbourne, 1968: Saturday 14 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Melbourne, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1968 falls on Saturday 14 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:19 on Sat 14 Sep to 19:40 on Sun 15 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 90 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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