Saturday 16 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 15:56 on Sat 16 Sep to 18:23 on Sun 17 Sep.

   1995-09-16T07:55:59Z → 1995-09-17T10:23:10Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:18–19:52 on the 16th, 18:17–19:51 on the 17th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 94 of 94 minutes on the 16th and 6 of 94 on the 17th.

   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 343 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Puning, 1995: Saturday 16 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Puning, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1995 falls on Saturday 16 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 15:56 on Sat 16 Sep to 18:23 on Sun 17 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 6 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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