Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1992

Sunday 20 September

Determinatein Suva, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 22 minutes.

Decide it for

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18°08′ S 178°26′ E · Pacific/Fiji · GeoNames 2198148

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Saturday 19 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:02 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:37
17:3818:0218:2618:5019:1419:3820:02

0 of 96 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 20 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

18:02 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:37
Aṣṭamī ends 19:15:29
17:3818:0218:2618:5019:1419:3820:02

74 of 95 minutes covered, the first 74

Aṣṭamī presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 20:21 on Sat 19 Sep to 19:15 on Sun 20 Sep.

    1992-09-19T08:21:15Z → 1992-09-20T07:15:30Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:02–19:37 on the 19th, 18:02–19:37 on the 20th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 96 minutes on the 19th and 74 of 95 on the 20th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1295 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Suva, 1992: Sunday 20 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Suva, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1992 falls on Sunday 20 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 20:21 on Sat 19 Sep to 19:15 on Sun 20 Sep and covers 74 of 95 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/suva/festivals/1992/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 20 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 20 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 20 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Suva.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Bhādrapada, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Kṛṣṇa · Aṣṭamī
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 103

“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceAṣṭamīSunset 19thCoveredSunset 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:21 → 00:1518:5394 min18:520 min19 Sep
Chicago03:21 → 02:1518:5294 min18:500 min19 Sep
Jersey City04:21 → 03:1518:5894 min18:560 min19 Sep
Port of Spain04:21 → 03:1518:0495 min18:030 min19 Sep
London09:21 → 08:1519:0593 min19:030 min19 Sep
Durban10:21 → 09:1517:5096 min17:510 min19 Sep
Dubai12:21 → 11:1518:1894 min18:170 min19 Sep
Delhi13:51 → 12:4518:2194 min18:200 min19 Sep
Kolkata13:51 → 12:4517:3695 min17:350 min19 Sep
Singapore16:21 → 15:1519:0295 min19:010 min19 Sep
Sydney18:21 → 17:1517:4964 min17:500 min19 Sep
Suva20:21 → 19:1518:020 min18:0274 min20 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
jitashtami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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