Tuesday 27 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 16:29 on Tue 27 Sep to 18:08 on Wed 28 Sep.

   1994-09-27T11:28:54Z → 1994-09-28T13:07:57Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:05–19:41 on the 27th, 18:04–19:40 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 96 of 96 minutes on the 27th and 4 of 96 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 261 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Multan, 1994: Tuesday 27 September.

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

Say it like this

In Multan, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1994 falls on Tuesday 27 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:29 on Tue 27 Sep to 18:08 on Wed 28 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 4 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 4 min 21 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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