Tuesday 16 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 18:36 on Mon 15 Sep to 19:44 on Tue 16 Sep.

   2014-09-15T13:35:34Z → 2014-09-16T14:44:09Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:20–19:53 on the 15th, 18:18–19:52 on the 16th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 77 of 93 minutes on the 15th and 86 of 93 on the 16th.

   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 469 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Multan, 2014: Tuesday 16 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Multan, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2014 falls on Tuesday 16 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 18:36 on Mon 15 Sep to 19:44 on Tue 16 Sep and covers 86 of 93 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 77 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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