Ruling · Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) · 1994

Tuesday 27 September

Determinatein Tehran, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 75 minutes.

Decide it for

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35°42′ N 51°25′ E · Asia/Tehran · GeoNames 112931

The two evenings

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

Evening of Tuesday 27 September

Taken. The only evening Aṣṭamī reaches.

17:54 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:31
17:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:3019:54

96 of 96 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 28 September

Aṣṭamī is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:53 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:29
17:2917:5318:1718:4119:0519:2919:53

0 of 97 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Aṣṭamī runs from 14:59 on Tue 27 Sep to 16:38 on Wed 28 Sep.

    1994-09-27T11:28:54Z → 1994-09-28T13:07:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:54–19:31 on the 27th, 17:53–19:29 on the 28th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 96 of 96 minutes on the 27th and 0 of 97 on the 28th.

    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 4494 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Jitāṣṭamī, Tehran, 1994: Tuesday 27 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Tehran, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 1994 falls on Tuesday 27 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 14:59 on Tue 27 Sep to 16:38 on Wed 28 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/tehran/festivals/1994/jitashtami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 27 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 27 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 27 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Tehran.

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 27thCoveredSunset 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:29 → 06:0818:4396 min18:410 min27 Sep
Chicago06:29 → 08:0818:3997 min18:370 min27 Sep
Jersey City07:29 → 09:0818:4597 min18:430 min27 Sep
Port of Spain07:29 → 09:0817:5996 min17:580 min27 Sep
London12:29 → 14:0818:4897 min18:450 min27 Sep
Durban13:29 → 15:0817:5494 min17:550 min27 Sep
Dubai15:29 → 17:0818:1096 min18:090 min27 Sep
Delhi16:59 → 18:3818:1296 min18:1127 min27 Sep
Kolkata16:59 → 18:3817:2896 min17:2771 min27 Sep
Singapore19:29 → 21:0818:5965 min18:5895 min28 Sep
Sydney21:29 → 23:0817:540 min17:5593 min28 Sep
Suva23:29 → 01:0818:030 min18:0394 min28 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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