Evening of Wednesday 10 September
Taken. Both evenings qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
18:19 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:50
17:5518:1918:4319:0719:3119:5520:19
91 of 91 minutes covered
Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1952
Boundaryin Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both evenings qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.
Evening of Wednesday 10 September
Taken. Both evenings qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
91 of 91 minutes covered
Evening of Thursday 11 September
Qualifies with 26 of 92 minutes. Not taken.
26 of 92 minutes covered, the first 26
Aṅga
Aṣṭamī runs from 17:40 on Wed 10 Sep to 18:43 on Thu 11 Sep.
1952-09-10T14:09:50Z → 1952-09-11T15:13:00Z
Kāla
Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:19–19:50 on the 10th, 18:17–19:49 on the 11th.
pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 91 of 91 minutes on the 10th and 26 of 92 on the 11th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103
Tie-break
Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 1531 s
Ruling
Jitāṣṭamī, Tehran, 1952: Wednesday 10 September.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Tehran, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1952 falls on Wednesday 10 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 17:40 on Wed 10 Sep to 18:43 on Thu 11 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 26 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Wed 10 Sep |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Wed 10 Sep |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Wed 10 Sep |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Tehran. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/jitashtami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Aṣṭamī | Sunset 10th | Covered | Sunset 11th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 07:10 → 08:13 | 19:06 | 92 min | 19:05 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| Chicago | 09:10 → 10:13 | 19:08 | 90 min | 19:07 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| Jersey City | 10:10 → 11:13 | 19:13 | 91 min | 19:12 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| Port of Spain | 10:10 → 11:13 | 18:10 | 94 min | 18:09 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| London | 15:10 → 16:13 | 19:26 | 88 min | 19:24 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| Durban | 16:10 → 17:13 | 17:45 | 98 min | 17:46 | 0 min | 10 Sep |
| Dubai | 18:10 → 19:13 | 18:28 | 93 min | 18:27 | 46 min | 10 Sep |
| Delhi | 19:40 → 20:43 | 18:32 | 25 min | 18:31 | 92 min | 11 Sep |
| Kolkata | 19:40 → 20:43 | 17:45 | 0 min | 17:44 | 93 min | 11 Sep |
| Singapore | 21:40 → 22:43 | 18:35 | 0 min | 18:35 | 95 min | 11 Sep |
| Sydney | 00:10 → 01:13 | 17:43 | 0 min | 17:43 | 98 min | 11 Sep |
| Suva | 02:10 → 03:13 | 18:00 | 0 min | 18:00 | 97 min | 11 Sep |