Wednesday 10 September

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Aṣṭamī runs from 17:10 on Wed 10 Sep to 18:13 on Thu 11 Sep.

   1952-09-10T14:09:50Z → 1952-09-11T15:13:00Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:02–19:35 on the 10th, 18:01–19:34 on the 11th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 10th and 12 of 93 on the 11th.

   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 705 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Jitāṣṭamī, Riyadh, 1952: Wednesday 10 September.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Riyadh, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1952 falls on Wednesday 10 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:10 on Wed 10 Sep to 18:13 on Thu 11 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 12 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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