{ "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008", "place": { "id": "292968", "slug": "abu-dhabi", "name": "Abu Dhabi", "region": "United Arab Emirates", "country": "AE", "lat": 24.45118, "lon": 54.39696, "elevation_m": 6, "tz": "Asia/Dubai" }, "year": 2008, "tradition": "smarta", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "rulings": [ { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-01-04", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Saphalā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-04", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 4201, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-01-03T05:56:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-03T01:56:57Z", "ms": 1199325417210.4133 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-04T08:30:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-04T04:30:32Z", "ms": 1199421032310.7087 }, "month": { "amanta": 8, "purnimanta": 9, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa", "purnimanta_name": "Pauṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-01-03T05:56:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-03T01:56:57Z", "ms": 1199325417210.4133 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-04T08:30:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-04T04:30:32Z", "ms": 1199421032310.7087 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-03", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-03T07:06:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-03T03:06:59Z", "ms": 1199329618686.0464 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-03T07:06:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-03T03:06:59Z", "ms": 1199329618686.0464 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-01-04", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-04T07:07:14+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-04T03:07:14Z", "ms": 1199416034094.592 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-04T07:07:14+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-04T03:07:14Z", "ms": 1199416034094.592 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "paraviddha", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 05:57 on Thu 3 Jan to 08:31 on Fri 4 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-03T01:56:57Z → 2008-01-04T04:30:32Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 07:07 on the 3rd and 07:07 on the 4th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is on the 3rd and is on the 4th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Both sunrises qualify. Paraviddhā: the second is taken.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 4201 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Saphalā Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 4 January.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-04", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-04", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Saphalā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Friday 4 January. Ekādaśī runs from 05:57 on Thu 3 Jan to 08:31 on Fri 4 Jan and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-01-04", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-01-05", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-05", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 17830, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 27, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-01-05T10:51:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-05T06:51:02Z", "ms": 1199515862123.577 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-06T12:51:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T08:51:11Z", "ms": 1199609471419.1714 }, "month": { "amanta": 8, "purnimanta": 9, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa", "purnimanta_name": "Pauṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-01-05T10:51:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-05T06:51:02Z", "ms": 1199515862123.577 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-06T12:51:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T08:51:11Z", "ms": 1199609471419.1714 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-05", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-05T17:47:40+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-05T13:47:40Z", "ms": 1199540859838.9595 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-05T19:34:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-05T15:34:20Z", "ms": 1199547259981.9329 } }, "covered_min": 107, "window_min": 107, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-01-06", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-06T17:48:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T13:48:21Z", "ms": 1199627301364.0225 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-06T19:34:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T15:34:57Z", "ms": 1199633697486.0847 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 107, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 10:51 on Sat 5 Jan to 12:51 on Sun 6 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-05T06:51:02Z → 2008-01-06T08:51:11Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:48–19:34 on the 5th, 17:48–19:35 on the 6th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 107 of 107 minutes on the 5th and 0 of 107 on the 6th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 17830 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 5 January.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-05", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-05", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Saturday 5 January. Trayodaśī runs from 10:51 on Sat 5 Jan to 12:51 on Sun 6 Jan and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-01-05", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-01-06", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-06", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 34651, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-01-06T12:51:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T08:51:11Z", "ms": 1199609471419.1714 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-07T14:27:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-07T10:27:02Z", "ms": 1199701621663.308 }, "month": { "amanta": 8, "purnimanta": 9, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa", "purnimanta_name": "Pauṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-01-06T12:51:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T08:51:11Z", "ms": 1199609471419.1714 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-07T14:27:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-07T10:27:02Z", "ms": 1199701621663.308 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-06", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-07T00:04:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T20:04:07Z", "ms": 1199649846821.7559 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-07T00:52:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-06T20:52:07Z", "ms": 1199652726821.7559 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-01-07", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-08T00:04:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-07T20:04:33Z", "ms": 1199736272813.5996 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-08T00:52:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-07T20:52:33Z", "ms": 1199739152813.5996 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 12:51 on Sun 6 Jan to 14:27 on Mon 7 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-06T08:51:11Z → 2008-01-07T10:27:02Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 00:04–00:52 on the 6th, 00:05–00:53 on the 7th.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 48 on the 7th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one night qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 34651 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śivarātri, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 6 January.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shivaratri", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The krsna caturdasi in each month is called 'Sivaratri'. The chief among them is that of Magha. The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-06", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-06", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Sunday 6 January. Caturdaśī runs from 12:51 on Sun 6 Jan to 14:27 on Mon 7 Jan and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-01-06", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-01-12", "festival": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "name": "Vināyaka Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-12", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 11901, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 3, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-01-11T16:38:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-11T12:38:55Z", "ms": 1200055134838.8203 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-12T16:12:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-12T12:12:55Z", "ms": 1200139974592.6008 }, "month": { "amanta": 9, "purnimanta": 9, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Pauṣa", "purnimanta_name": "Pauṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-01-11T16:38:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-11T12:38:55Z", "ms": 1200055134838.8203 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-12T16:12:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-12T12:12:55Z", "ms": 1200139974592.6008 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-11", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-11T12:06:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-11T08:06:09Z", "ms": 1200038769487.6096 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-11T12:54:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-11T08:54:09Z", "ms": 1200041649487.6096 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-01-12", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-12T12:06:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-12T08:06:33Z", "ms": 1200125193489.5576 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-12T12:54:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-12T08:54:33Z", "ms": 1200128073489.5576 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 16:39 on Fri 11 Jan to 16:13 on Sat 12 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-11T12:38:55Z → 2008-01-12T12:12:55Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:06–12:54 on the 11th, 12:07–12:55 on the 12th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 11th and 48 of 48 on the 12th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11901 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vināyaka Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 12 January.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. 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The transit falls between the sunsets of the 14th and the 15th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 106" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "An instant falls in one day and no other. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "day counted from sunset → only-day · margin 17055 s" }, { "step": "counted", "text": "Bhogi is kept the day before Pongal: Tuesday 15 January is the day taken above.", "fact": "follows: pongal − 1 d" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Bhogi, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 14 January.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "solar", "id": "bhogi", "follows": { "festival": "pongal", "days": -1 }, "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 106", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Makaradi — Makaradi snana, Magh Bihu (Assam), Tila samkranti, Pongal (S. India), Bhogi (S. India — on the day before Pongal), Mattu Pongal (S. India — on the day after Pongal)." }, { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, Rules of Samkranti", "locator": "p. 244", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The Tamil rule: In the Tamil districts the rule is that when a samkranti takes place before sunset, the month begins on the same day, while if it takes place after sunset the month begins on the following day." } ], "rashi": "Makara", "day_from": "sunset" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-14", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-14", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "reckoning", "id": "civil-day", "local_date": "2008-01-13", "statement": "Counted from midnight", "reference": { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 106", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). 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The rule counts the day from sunset to sunset, and the transit falls between the sunsets of the 14th and the 15th. Counted from midnight, or counted from sunrise, as in Orissa, it is 13 January.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/bhogi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/makara-sankranti", "festival": "makara-sankranti", "name": "Makara Saṅkrānti", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-14", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 4898, "anga": { "type": "sankranti", "index": 9, "key": "makara", "name": "Makara", "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-13T11:35:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T07:35:22Z", "ms": 1202888122301.732 } }, "span": { "of": "transit", "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 } }, "kaala": "civil-day", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T00:00:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-13T20:00:00Z", "ms": 1200254400000 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-15T00:00:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T20:00:00Z", "ms": 1200340800000 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 1440, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-01-15", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-15T00:00:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T20:00:00Z", "ms": 1200340800000 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-16T00:00:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-15T20:00:00Z", "ms": 1200427200000 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 1440, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "The Sun enters Makara at 22:38 on Mon 14 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "The day is counted from midnight to midnight, on the clock of Abu Dhabi.", "fact": "civil-day: midnight-to-midnight · Asia/Dubai" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from midnight. 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India — on the day after Pongal)." }, { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 106", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). 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The Sun enters Makara at 22:38 on Mon 14 Jan, and the rule counts the day from midnight. By the Tamil rule for the first day of a solar month, which gives a transit after sunset to the next day, it is 15 January.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/makara-sankranti", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pongal", "festival": "pongal", "name": "Pongal", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-01-15", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 17055, "anga": { "type": "sankranti", "index": 9, "key": "makara", "name": "Makara", "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-13T11:35:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T07:35:22Z", "ms": 1202888122301.732 } }, "span": { "of": "transit", "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-14T22:38:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z", "ms": 1200335901652.1606 } }, "kaala": "sunset-day", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-01-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-13T17:53:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-13T13:53:23Z", "ms": 1200232402887.96 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-14T17:54:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T13:54:07Z", "ms": 1200318846996.8445 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 1441, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-01-15", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-01-14T17:54:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-14T13:54:07Z", "ms": 1200318846996.8445 }, "end": { "local": "2008-01-15T17:54:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-01-15T13:54:51Z", "ms": 1200405291242.5854 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 1441, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "The Sun enters Makara at 22:38 on Mon 14 Jan.", "fact": "2008-01-14T18:38:22Z · nirayana, lahiri-iae1985" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "The day is counted from the sunset before it to its own sunset: the day of the 14th ends at 17:54, and the day of the 15th ends at 17:55.", "fact": "sunset-day: sunset-to-sunset · sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "The festival is kept on the day of the transit, the day counted from the sunset before it: a transit after sunset belongs to the next day. 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It is kept on the first day of the month of Makara as the Tamil districts count it, a transit after sunset going to the next day (p. 244); the Rashtriya Panchang prints Pongal so.", "rashi": "Makara", "day_from": "sunset" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-15", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-01-15", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "reckoning", "id": "civil-day", "local_date": "2008-01-14", "statement": "Counted from midnight", "reference": { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 106", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The following festivals are observed according to the day of Sun's transit into rasis (Ravi-samkramana). 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 1960 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Yama Tarpaṇa, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 6 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "yama-tarpana", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 14 Yama tarpana (covering a period of 4 ghatikas before sunrise)" } ], "kaala": "arunodaya", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-06", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-06", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Yama Tarpaṇa 2008 falls on Wednesday 6 February. Caturdaśī runs from 07:36 on Tue 5 Feb to 07:57 on Wed 6 Feb and covers all of aruṇodaya that dawn.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/yama-tarpana", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ganesha-jayanti", "festival": "ganesha-jayanti", "name": "Gaṇeśa Jayantī", "everyday": "Maghi Ganesh Jayanti", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-02-10", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 27843, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 3, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-02-10T04:28:45+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T00:28:45Z", "ms": 1202603325141.9038 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-11T02:45:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T22:45:18Z", "ms": 1202683517902.664 }, "month": { "amanta": 10, "purnimanta": 10, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Māgha", "purnimanta_name": "Māgha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-02-10T04:28:45+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T00:28:45Z", "ms": 1202603325141.9038 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-11T02:45:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T22:45:18Z", "ms": 1202683517902.664 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-02-10", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-10T12:12:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T08:12:48Z", "ms": 1202631167904.6365 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-10T13:00:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-10T09:00:48Z", "ms": 1202634047904.6365 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-02-11", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-11T12:12:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-11T08:12:49Z", "ms": 1202717568928.2163 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-11T13:00:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-11T09:00:49Z", "ms": 1202720448928.2163 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 04:29 on Sun 10 Feb to 02:45 on Mon 11 Feb.", "fact": "2008-02-10T00:28:45Z → 2008-02-10T22:45:18Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:13–13:01 on the 10th, 12:13–13:01 on the 11th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during madhyāhna. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 27843 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Gaṇeśa Jayantī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 10 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ganesha-jayanti", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-10", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-10", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Gaṇeśa Jayantī (Maghi Ganesh Jayanti) 2008 falls on Sunday 10 February. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 24587 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Tila Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 10 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "tila-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 4 Tila caturthi and Kunda caturthi (pradosavyapini), Varada caturthi (Bengal & Orissa), Ganesa caturthi, Ganesa jayanti (madhyahnavyapini purvaviddha)." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-10", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-10", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Tila Caturthī 2008 falls on Sunday 10 February. 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It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 11th and 0 of 48 on the 12th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 34051 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vasanta Pañcamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 11 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vasanta-panchami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-11", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-11", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vasanta Pañcamī 2008 falls on Monday 11 February. Pañcamī runs from 02:45 on Mon 11 Feb to 00:50 on Tue 12 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vasanta-panchami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ratha-saptami", "festival": "ratha-saptami", "name": "Ratha Saptamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-02-13", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 23403, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 6, "key": "saptami", "name": "Saptamī", "start": { "local": "2008-02-12T22:46:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-12T18:46:30Z", "ms": 1202841989551.2568 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-13T20:38:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T16:38:19Z", "ms": 1202920699478.5002 }, "month": { "amanta": 10, "purnimanta": 10, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Māgha", "purnimanta_name": "Māgha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-02-12T22:46:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-12T18:46:30Z", "ms": 1202841989551.2568 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-13T20:38:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T16:38:19Z", "ms": 1202920699478.5002 } }, "kaala": "arunodaya", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-02-13", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-13T05:16:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T01:16:32Z", "ms": 1202865392094.5144 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-13T06:58:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-13T02:58:22Z", "ms": 1202871502020.6296 } }, "covered_min": 102, "window_min": 102, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-02-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-14T05:16:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-14T01:16:03Z", "ms": 1202951762607.237 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-14T06:57:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-14T02:57:42Z", "ms": 1202957862207.8557 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 102, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Saptamī runs from 22:46 on Tue 12 Feb to 20:38 on Wed 13 Feb.", "fact": "2008-02-12T18:46:30Z → 2008-02-13T16:38:19Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Aruṇodaya is 2 muhūrtas before sunrise: 05:17–06:58 on the 13th, 05:16–06:58 on the 14th.", "fact": "arunodaya: prev-night-muhurta-14-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Saptamī must be present during aruṇodaya. It covers 102 of 102 minutes on the 13th and 0 of 102 on the 14th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one dawn qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 23403 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Ratha Saptamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 13 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ratha-saptami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 7 Ratha saptami (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise), Acala saptami, Vidhana saptami, Arogya saptami [purvaviddha]." } ], "kaala": "arunodaya", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-13", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-13", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Ratha Saptamī 2008 falls on Wednesday 13 February. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-17", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-17", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Jayā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 17 February. 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It covers 101 of 101 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 101 on the 19th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27503 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 18 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-18", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-18", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Monday 18 February. Trayodaśī runs from 10:40 on Mon 18 Feb to 09:14 on Tue 19 Feb and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-02-18", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/maghi-purnima", "festival": "maghi-purnima", "name": "Māghī Pūrṇimā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-02-20", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 14582, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 14, "key": "purnima", "name": "Pūrṇimā", "start": { "local": "2008-02-20T08:09:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-20T04:09:22Z", "ms": 1203480562206.373 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-21T07:30:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-21T03:30:31Z", "ms": 1203564630744.885 }, "month": { "amanta": 10, "purnimanta": 10, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Māgha", "purnimanta_name": "Māgha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-02-20T08:09:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-20T04:09:22Z", "ms": 1203480562206.373 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-21T07:30:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-21T03:30:31Z", "ms": 1203564630744.885 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-02-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-20T12:12:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-20T08:12:24Z", "ms": 1203495143807.4438 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-20T13:00:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-20T09:00:24Z", "ms": 1203498023807.4438 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-02-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-02-21T12:12:17+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-21T08:12:17Z", "ms": 1203581537451.0027 }, "end": { "local": "2008-02-21T13:00:17+04:00", "utc": "2008-02-21T09:00:17Z", "ms": 1203584417451.0027 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pūrṇimā runs from 08:09 on Wed 20 Feb to 07:31 on Thu 21 Feb.", "fact": "2008-02-20T04:09:22Z → 2008-02-21T03:30:31Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:12–13:00 on the 20th, 12:12–13:00 on the 21st.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 14582 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Māghī Pūrṇimā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 20 February.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "maghi-purnima", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 15 Maghi purnima (paraviddha)" } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-20", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-02-20", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Māghī Pūrṇimā 2008 falls on Wednesday 20 February. 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It covers 0 of 98 minutes on the 4th and 98 of 98 on the 5th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14192 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 5 March.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-05", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-05", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Wednesday 5 March. Trayodaśī runs from 00:27 on Wed 5 Mar to 00:01 on Thu 6 Mar and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-03-05", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-03-11", "festival": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "name": "Vināyaka Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-11", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 3243, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 3, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-03-10T13:58:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-10T09:58:12Z", "ms": 1205143092262.3193 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-11T11:14:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-11T07:14:31Z", "ms": 1205219671420.6853 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 11, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Phālguna" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-10T13:58:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-10T09:58:12Z", "ms": 1205143092262.3193 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-11T11:14:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-11T07:14:31Z", "ms": 1205219671420.6853 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-10", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-10T12:08:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-10T08:08:50Z", "ms": 1205136529599.7039 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-10T12:56:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-10T08:56:50Z", "ms": 1205139409599.7039 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-03-11", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-11T12:08:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-11T08:08:34Z", "ms": 1205222913967.0215 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-11T12:56:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-11T08:56:34Z", "ms": 1205225793967.0215 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "second-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 13:58 on Mon 10 Mar to 11:15 on Tue 11 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-10T09:58:12Z → 2008-03-11T07:14:31Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 10th, 12:09–12:57 on the 11th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 0 of 48 on the 11th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Neither midday qualifies. The rule takes the second day.", "fact": "priority: unstated → second-day · margin 3243 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vināyaka Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 11 March.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. It is called Angaraka caturthi if it falls on Tuesday." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-11", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-11", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vināyaka Caturthī 2008 falls on Tuesday 11 March. Caturthī runs from 13:58 on Mon 10 Mar to 11:15 on Tue 11 Mar, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-03-11", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-03-17", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Āmalakī Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-17", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 27094, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 10, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-03-16T22:58:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-16T18:58:03Z", "ms": 1205693882805.3638 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-17T22:06:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-17T18:06:51Z", "ms": 1205777211452.5388 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 11, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Phālguna" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-16T22:58:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-16T18:58:03Z", "ms": 1205693882805.3638 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-17T22:06:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-17T18:06:51Z", "ms": 1205777211452.5388 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-17", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-17T06:29:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-17T02:29:37Z", "ms": 1205720977105.5789 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-17T06:29:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-17T02:29:37Z", "ms": 1205720977105.5789 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-03-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-18T06:28:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T02:28:37Z", "ms": 1205807316576.0635 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-18T06:28:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T02:28:37Z", "ms": 1205807316576.0635 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 22:58 on Sun 16 Mar to 22:07 on Mon 17 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-16T18:58:03Z → 2008-03-17T18:06:51Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:30 on the 17th and 06:29 on the 18th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-17", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-17", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Āmalakī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Monday 17 March. Ekādaśī runs from 22:58 on Sun 16 Mar to 22:07 on Mon 17 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-03-17", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-03-19", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-19", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 5214, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 12, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-03-18T21:39:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T17:39:07Z", "ms": 1205861946641.826 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-19T21:35:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-19T17:35:04Z", "ms": 1205948104064.998 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 11, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Phālguna" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-18T21:39:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T17:39:07Z", "ms": 1205861946641.826 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-19T21:35:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-19T17:35:04Z", "ms": 1205948104064.998 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-18T18:32:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T14:32:37Z", "ms": 1205850756708.62 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-18T20:07:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-18T16:07:57Z", "ms": 1205856476596.7344 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 95, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-03-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-19T18:33:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-19T14:33:02Z", "ms": 1205937182138.1182 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-19T20:08:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-19T16:08:11Z", "ms": 1205942890521.678 } }, "covered_min": 95, "window_min": 95, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 21:39 on Tue 18 Mar to 21:35 on Wed 19 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-18T17:39:07Z → 2008-03-19T17:35:04Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:33–20:08 on the 18th, 18:33–20:08 on the 19th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. 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It covers 0 of 145 minutes on the 20th and 146 of 146 on the 21st.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one late afternoon qualifies. 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Pūrṇimā runs from 21:55 on Thu 20 Mar to 22:40 on Fri 21 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna that late afternoon.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/holika-dahana", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/holi", "festival": "holi", "name": "Holī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 12102, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 14, "key": "purnima", "name": "Pūrṇimā", "start": { "local": "2008-03-20T21:55:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-20T17:55:10Z", "ms": 1206035709643.2837 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-21T22:39:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T18:39:57Z", "ms": 1206124797405.5532 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 11, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Phālguna" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-20T21:55:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-20T17:55:10Z", "ms": 1206035709643.2837 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-21T22:39:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T18:39:57Z", "ms": 1206124797405.5532 } }, "kaala": "sayahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-20T16:08:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-20T12:08:05Z", "ms": 1206014884933.655 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-20T18:33:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-20T14:33:27Z", "ms": 1206023607413.3647 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 145, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-03-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-21T16:08:13+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T12:08:13Z", "ms": 1206101292850.4697 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-21T18:33:53+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T14:33:53Z", "ms": 1206110032552.796 } }, "covered_min": 146, "window_min": 146, "qualifies": true } ], "follows": { "festival": "holika-dahana", "name": "Holikā Dahana", "local_date": "2008-03-21", "days": 1 }, "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pūrṇimā runs from 21:55 on Thu 20 Mar to 22:40 on Fri 21 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-20T17:55:10Z → 2008-03-21T18:39:57Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:08–18:33 on the 20th, 16:08–18:34 on the 21st.", "fact": "sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pūrṇimā must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 0 of 145 minutes on the 20th and 146 of 146 on the 21st.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one late afternoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 12102 s" }, { "step": "counted", "text": "Holī is kept the day after Holikā Dahana: Friday 21 March is the day taken above.", "fact": "follows: holika-dahana + 1 d" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Holī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 22 March.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "holi", "follows": { "festival": "holika-dahana", "days": 1 }, "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 15 Holika-dahana (Sayahnavyapini — it should be observed on second half of purnima at night), Dolayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (covering 4 ghatikas before sunrise of the day of festival), Holi — on the day after Holikadahana." } ], "kaala": "sayahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Holī 2008 falls on Saturday 22 March. It is kept the day after Holikā Dahana, which falls on Friday 21 March. Pūrṇimā runs from 21:55 on Thu 20 Mar to 22:40 on Fri 21 Mar and covers all of sāyāhna on the 21st.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/holi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vasantotsava", "festival": "vasantotsava", "name": "Vasantotsava", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 23622, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 15, "key": "pratipada", "name": "Pratipadā", "start": { "local": "2008-03-21T22:39:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T18:39:57Z", "ms": 1206124797405.5532 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-22T23:49:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-22T19:49:50Z", "ms": 1206215390105.875 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-21T22:39:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-21T18:39:57Z", "ms": 1206124797405.5532 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-22T23:49:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-22T19:49:50Z", "ms": 1206215390105.875 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-22T06:24:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-22T02:24:33Z", "ms": 1206152672977.6018 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-22T06:24:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-22T02:24:33Z", "ms": 1206152672977.6018 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-03-23", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-23T06:23:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-23T02:23:32Z", "ms": 1206239011853.1318 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-23T06:23:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-23T02:23:32Z", "ms": 1206239011853.1318 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pratipadā runs from 22:40 on Fri 21 Mar to 23:50 on Sat 22 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-21T18:39:57Z → 2008-03-22T19:49:50Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:25 on the 22nd and 06:24 on the 23rd.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pratipadā must be current at sunrise. It is on the 22nd and is not on the 23rd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 23622 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vasantotsava, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 22 March.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vasantotsava", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 1 Vasantotsava (current at sunrise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day)." } ], "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-22", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vasantotsava 2008 falls on Saturday 22 March. Pratipadā runs from 22:40 on Fri 21 Mar to 23:50 on Sat 22 Mar and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vasantotsava", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-03-25", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-25", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 22696, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-03-25T03:21:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-24T23:21:38Z", "ms": 1206400898182.4282 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-26T05:37:13+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-26T01:37:13Z", "ms": 1206495433277.3418 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-25T03:21:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-24T23:21:38Z", "ms": 1206400898182.4282 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-26T05:37:13+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-26T01:37:13Z", "ms": 1206495433277.3418 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-24T21:03:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-24T17:03:22Z", "ms": 1206378202298.029 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-24T21:03:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-24T17:03:22Z", "ms": 1206378202298.029 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-03-25", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-25T21:57:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-25T17:57:58Z", "ms": 1206467878427.7788 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-25T21:57:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-25T17:57:58Z", "ms": 1206467878427.7788 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 03:22 on Tue 25 Mar to 05:37 on Wed 26 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-24T23:21:38Z → 2008-03-26T01:37:13Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 21:03 on the 24th and 21:58 on the 25th.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 24th and is on the 25th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 22696 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 25 March.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "sankashta-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. It is called Angaraka caturthi if it falls on Tuesday." } ], "not_evaluated": "It is called Aṅgāraka Caturthī when it falls on a Tuesday; the weekday is not tested.", "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-25", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-25", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī 2008 falls on Tuesday 25 March. Caturthī runs from 03:22 on Tue 25 Mar to 05:37 on Wed 26 Mar and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-03-25", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shitalashtami", "festival": "shitalashtami", "name": "Śītalāṣṭamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-03-29", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "margin" ], "boundary_margin_s": 226, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 22, "key": "ashtami", "name": "Aṣṭamī", "start": { "local": "2008-03-29T12:47:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-29T08:47:32Z", "ms": 1206780452301.8008 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-30T14:39:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-30T10:39:30Z", "ms": 1206873569677.1655 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-03-29T12:47:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-29T08:47:32Z", "ms": 1206780452301.8008 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-30T14:39:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-30T10:39:30Z", "ms": 1206873569677.1655 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-03-29", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-29T12:03:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-29T08:03:18Z", "ms": 1206777798161.6768 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-29T12:51:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-29T08:51:18Z", "ms": 1206780678161.6768 } }, "covered_min": 4, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-03-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-03-30T12:03:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-30T08:03:00Z", "ms": 1206864180127.516 }, "end": { "local": "2008-03-30T12:51:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-03-30T08:51:00Z", "ms": 1206867060127.516 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "purvaviddha", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Aṣṭamī runs from 12:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 14:39 on Sun 30 Mar.", "fact": "2008-03-29T08:47:32Z → 2008-03-30T10:39:30Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:03–12:51 on the 29th, 12:03–12:51 on the 30th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 4 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 48 of 48 on the 30th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Both middays qualify. Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 226 s < 300 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śītalāṣṭamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 29 March.", "fact": "confidence: boundary (margin)" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shitalashtami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 8 Sitalastami, (purvaviddha)" } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-29", "confidence": "boundary" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-03-29", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śītalāṣṭamī 2008 falls on Saturday 29 March. Aṣṭamī runs from 12:48 on Sat 29 Mar to 14:39 on Sun 30 Mar and covers 4 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the next midday for 48 minutes; by the rule the first midday is taken. It is 3 min 46 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shitalashtami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-04-02", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Pāpamocanī Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-02", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 35928, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-04-01T16:28:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-01T12:28:10Z", "ms": 1207052889514.406 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-02T16:12:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-02T12:12:11Z", "ms": 1207138331273.6213 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-01T16:28:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-01T12:28:10Z", "ms": 1207052889514.406 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-02T16:12:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-02T12:12:11Z", "ms": 1207138331273.6213 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-01", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-01T06:14:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-01T02:14:24Z", "ms": 1207016063680.0984 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-01T06:14:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-01T02:14:24Z", "ms": 1207016063680.0984 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-04-02", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-02T06:13:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-02T02:13:23Z", "ms": 1207102403494.352 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-02T06:13:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-02T02:13:23Z", "ms": 1207102403494.352 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 16:28 on Tue 1 Apr to 16:12 on Wed 2 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-01T12:28:10Z → 2008-04-02T12:12:11Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:14 on the 1st and 06:13 on the 2nd.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 1st and is on the 2nd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 35928 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Pāpamocanī Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 2 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-02", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-02", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Pāpamocanī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Wednesday 2 April. Ekādaśī runs from 16:28 on Tue 1 Apr to 16:12 on Wed 2 Apr and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-04-02", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-04-03", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-03", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 12684, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 27, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-04-03T15:07:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T11:07:51Z", "ms": 1207220871178.0413 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-04T13:18:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T09:18:51Z", "ms": 1207300730916.2126 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-03T15:07:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T11:07:51Z", "ms": 1207220871178.0413 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-04T13:18:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T09:18:51Z", "ms": 1207300730916.2126 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-03", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-03T18:39:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T14:39:15Z", "ms": 1207233554678.7388 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-03T20:11:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T16:11:32Z", "ms": 1207239091904.4966 } }, "covered_min": 92, "window_min": 92, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-04-04", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-04T18:39:40+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T14:39:40Z", "ms": 1207319979591.8687 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-04T20:11:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T16:11:46Z", "ms": 1207325505577.427 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 92, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 15:08 on Thu 3 Apr to 13:19 on Fri 4 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-03T11:07:51Z → 2008-04-04T09:18:51Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:39–20:12 on the 3rd, 18:40–20:12 on the 4th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 92 of 92 minutes on the 3rd and 0 of 92 on the 4th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 12684 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 3 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-03", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-03", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Thursday 3 April. Trayodaśī runs from 15:08 on Thu 3 Apr to 13:19 on Fri 4 Apr and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-04-03", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-04-04", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-04", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 36165, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-04-04T13:18:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T09:18:51Z", "ms": 1207300730916.2126 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-05T10:51:47+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-05T06:51:47Z", "ms": 1207378307262.2173 }, "month": { "amanta": 11, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Phālguna", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-04T13:18:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T09:18:51Z", "ms": 1207300730916.2126 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-05T10:51:47+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-05T06:51:47Z", "ms": 1207378307262.2173 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-03", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-04T00:01:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T20:01:19Z", "ms": 1207252879275.3306 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-04T00:49:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-03T20:49:19Z", "ms": 1207255759275.3306 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-04-04", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-05T00:01:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T20:01:02Z", "ms": 1207339262037.713 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-05T00:49:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-04T20:49:02Z", "ms": 1207342142037.713 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 13:19 on Fri 4 Apr to 10:52 on Sat 5 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-04T09:18:51Z → 2008-04-05T06:51:47Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 00:01–00:49 on the 3rd, 00:01–00:49 on the 4th.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7423 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Rāma Navamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 13 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "rama-navami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 9 Ramanavami (madhyahnavyapini, special with Punarvasu naks.), Rama jayanti." } ], "not_evaluated": "The row calls the day special when it falls with Punarvasu nakṣatra; the nakṣatra is not tested.", "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-13", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-13", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Rāma Navamī 2008 falls on Sunday 13 April. Navamī runs from 09:55 on Sun 13 Apr to 09:09 on Mon 14 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/rama-navami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-04-16", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Kāmadā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-16", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 10528, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 10, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-04-15T08:56:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-15T04:56:20Z", "ms": 1208235379814.6814 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-16T09:14:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-16T05:14:28Z", "ms": 1208322867917.1924 }, "month": { "amanta": 0, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Caitra", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-15T08:56:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-15T04:56:20Z", "ms": 1208235379814.6814 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-16T09:14:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-16T05:14:28Z", "ms": 1208322867917.1924 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-15", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-15T06:00:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-15T02:00:51Z", "ms": 1208224851404.7285 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-15T06:00:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-15T02:00:51Z", "ms": 1208224851404.7285 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-04-16", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-16T05:59:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-16T01:59:57Z", "ms": 1208311196685.1687 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-16T05:59:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-16T01:59:57Z", "ms": 1208311196685.1687 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 08:56 on Tue 15 Apr to 09:14 on Wed 16 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-15T04:56:20Z → 2008-04-16T05:14:28Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:01 on the 15th and 06:00 on the 16th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-16", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-16", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kāmadā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Wednesday 16 April. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 2957 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Anaṅga Trayodaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 17 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ananga-trayodashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 13 Ananga trayodasi (purvaviddha), Mahavira jayanti (Jain)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-17", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-17", "confidence": "boundary" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Anaṅga Trayodaśī 2008 falls on Thursday 17 April. 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It covers 90 of 90 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 90 on the 18th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 27422 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 17 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-17", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-17", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Thursday 17 April. 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Paraviddhā: the second is taken.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 462 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Viṣṇudamanaka Caturdaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 19 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vishnu-damanaka-chaturdashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 14 Madanabhanji, (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha), Sivadamanaka caturdasi, Visnudamanaka caturdasi (paraviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-19", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-19", "confidence": "boundary" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Viṣṇudamanaka Caturdaśī 2008 falls on Saturday 19 April. Caturdaśī runs from 11:09 on Fri 18 Apr to 12:38 on Sat 19 Apr and covers 40 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 48 minutes; by the rule the second midday is taken.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vishnu-damanaka-chaturdashi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/chaitri-purnima", "festival": "chaitri-purnima", "name": "Caitrī Pūrṇimā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-20", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 462, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 14, "key": "purnima", "name": "Pūrṇimā", "start": { "local": "2008-04-19T12:37:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-19T08:37:59Z", "ms": 1208594278536.7751 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-20T14:25:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-20T10:25:23Z", "ms": 1208687122990.194 }, "month": { "amanta": 0, "purnimanta": 0, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Caitra", "purnimanta_name": "Caitra" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-19T12:37:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-19T08:37:59Z", "ms": 1208594278536.7751 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-20T14:25:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-20T10:25:23Z", "ms": 1208687122990.194 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-19T11:57:41+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-19T07:57:41Z", "ms": 1208591860504.1 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-19T12:45:41+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-19T08:45:41Z", "ms": 1208594740504.1 } }, "covered_min": 8, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-04-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-20T11:57:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-20T07:57:28Z", "ms": 1208678247748.945 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-20T12:45:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-20T08:45:28Z", "ms": 1208681127748.945 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "paraviddha", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pūrṇimā runs from 12:38 on Sat 19 Apr to 14:25 on Sun 20 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-19T08:37:59Z → 2008-04-20T10:25:23Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 19th, 11:57–12:45 on the 20th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 8 of 48 minutes on the 19th and 48 of 48 on the 20th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Both middays qualify. Paraviddhā: the second is taken.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 462 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Caitrī Pūrṇimā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 20 April.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "chaitri-purnima", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 15 Caitri purnima (paraviddha), Hanumat jayanti, Oli ending (Jain)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-20", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-04-20", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Caitrī Pūrṇimā 2008 falls on Sunday 20 April. Pūrṇimā runs from 12:38 on Sat 19 Apr to 14:25 on Sun 20 Apr and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 8 minutes; by the rule the second midday is taken.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/chaitri-purnima", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-04-23", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-04-23", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "tie-break-unstated" ], "boundary_margin_s": 1820, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-04-23T21:09:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-23T17:09:31Z", "ms": 1208970570631.1912 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-24T23:36:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-24T19:36:49Z", "ms": 1209065808502.3796 }, "month": { "amanta": 0, "purnimanta": 1, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Caitra", "purnimanta_name": "Vaiśākha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-04-23T21:09:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-23T17:09:31Z", "ms": 1208970570631.1912 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-24T23:36:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-24T19:36:49Z", "ms": 1209065808502.3796 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-04-23", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-23T21:39:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-23T17:39:51Z", "ms": 1208972390874.8867 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-23T21:39:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-23T17:39:51Z", "ms": 1208972390874.8867 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-04-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-04-24T22:32:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-24T18:32:58Z", "ms": 1209061978274.9421 }, "end": { "local": "2008-04-24T22:32:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-04-24T18:32:58Z", "ms": 1209061978274.9421 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "greater-coverage", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 21:10 on Wed 23 Apr to 23:37 on Thu 24 Apr.", "fact": "2008-04-23T17:09:31Z → 2008-04-24T19:36:49Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 21:40 on the 23rd and 22:33 on the 24th.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. 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Caturthī runs from 21:10 on Wed 23 Apr to 23:37 on Thu 24 Apr and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-04-23", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-05-01", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Varūthinī Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-05-01", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 1169, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-05-01T06:07:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-01T02:07:08Z", "ms": 1209607627774.2605 }, "end": { "local": "2008-05-02T04:37:35+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-02T00:37:35Z", "ms": 1209688654641.3003 }, "month": { "amanta": 0, "purnimanta": 1, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Caitra", "purnimanta_name": "Vaiśākha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-05-01T06:07:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-01T02:07:08Z", "ms": 1209607627774.2605 }, "end": { "local": "2008-05-02T04:37:35+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-02T00:37:35Z", "ms": 1209688654641.3003 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-05-01", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-05-01T05:47:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-01T01:47:38Z", "ms": 1209606458463.01 }, "end": { "local": "2008-05-01T05:47:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-01T01:47:38Z", "ms": 1209606458463.01 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-05-02", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-05-02T05:46:56+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-02T01:46:56Z", "ms": 1209692815849.1052 }, "end": { "local": "2008-05-02T05:46:56+04:00", "utc": "2008-05-02T01:46:56Z", "ms": 1209692815849.1052 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "tithi-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 06:07 on Thu 1 May to 04:38 on Fri 2 May.", "fact": "2008-05-01T02:07:08Z → 2008-05-02T00:37:35Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 05:48 on the 1st and 05:47 on the 2nd.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-05-01", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-05-01", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Varūthinī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Thursday 1 May. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 11236 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 3 May.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-05-03", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-05-03", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Saturday 3 May. 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It covers 84 of 84 minutes on the 1st and 0 of 84 on the 2nd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 30489 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 1 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-01", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-01", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Sunday 1 June. Trayodaśī runs from 10:39 on Sun 1 Jun to 07:07 on Mon 2 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-06-01", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-06-02", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-02", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 9233, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-02T07:07:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T03:07:22Z", "ms": 1212376042447.489 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-03T03:18:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T23:18:20Z", "ms": 1212448700230.9614 }, "month": { "amanta": 1, "purnimanta": 2, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Vaiśākha", "purnimanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-02T07:07:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T03:07:22Z", "ms": 1212376042447.489 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-03T03:18:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T23:18:20Z", "ms": 1212448700230.9614 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-01", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-01T23:56:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-01T19:56:18Z", "ms": 1212350177611.88 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-02T00:44:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-01T20:44:18Z", "ms": 1212353057611.88 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-06-02", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-02T23:56:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T19:56:28Z", "ms": 1212436587586.336 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-03T00:44:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-02T20:44:28Z", "ms": 1212439467586.336 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 07:07 on Mon 2 Jun to 03:18 on Tue 3 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-02T03:07:22Z → 2008-06-02T23:18:20Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 23:56–00:44 on the 1st, 23:56–00:44 on the 2nd.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 1st and 48 of 48 on the 2nd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one night qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 9233 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śivarātri, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 2 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shivaratri", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The krsna caturdasi in each month is called 'Sivaratri'. The chief among them is that of Magha. The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-02", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-02", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Monday 2 June. Caturdaśī runs from 07:07 on Mon 2 Jun to 03:18 on Tue 3 Jun and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-06-02", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/rambha-tritiya", "festival": "rambha-tritiya", "name": "Rambhā Tṛtīyā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-06", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "margin" ], "boundary_margin_s": 66, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 2, "key": "tritiya", "name": "Tṛtīyā", "start": { "local": "2008-06-05T15:55:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-05T11:55:51Z", "ms": 1212666950803.481 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:46:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:46:18Z", "ms": 1212741978370.2004 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 2, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-05T15:55:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-05T11:55:51Z", "ms": 1212666950803.481 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:46:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:46:18Z", "ms": 1212741978370.2004 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-05", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-05T11:57:01+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-05T07:57:01Z", "ms": 1212652621153.583 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-05T12:45:01+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-05T08:45:01Z", "ms": 1212655501153.583 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-06-06", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-06T11:57:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T07:57:12Z", "ms": 1212739031892.7378 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:45:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:45:12Z", "ms": 1212741911892.7378 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Tṛtīyā runs from 15:56 on Thu 5 Jun to 12:46 on Fri 6 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-05T11:55:51Z → 2008-06-06T08:46:18Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:57–12:45 on the 5th, 11:57–12:45 on the 6th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Tṛtīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 5th and 48 of 48 on the 6th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 66 s < 300 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Rambhā Tṛtīyā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 6 June.", "fact": "confidence: boundary (margin)" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "rambha-tritiya", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 3 Rambha trtiya (purvaviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-06", "confidence": "boundary" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-06", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Rambhā Tṛtīyā 2008 falls on Friday 6 June. Tṛtīyā runs from 15:56 on Thu 5 Jun to 12:46 on Fri 6 Jun and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It is 1 min 06 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/rambha-tritiya", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-06-07", "festival": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "name": "Vināyaka Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-07", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "margin" ], "boundary_margin_s": 66, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 3, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:46:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:46:18Z", "ms": 1212741978370.2004 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-07T10:11:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-07T06:11:48Z", "ms": 1212819107911.869 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 2, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:46:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:46:18Z", "ms": 1212741978370.2004 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-07T10:11:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-07T06:11:48Z", "ms": 1212819107911.869 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-06", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-06T11:57:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T07:57:12Z", "ms": 1212739031892.7378 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-06T12:45:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-06T08:45:12Z", "ms": 1212741911892.7378 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-06-07", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-07T11:57:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-07T07:57:23Z", "ms": 1212825442911.8472 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-07T12:45:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-07T08:45:23Z", "ms": 1212828322911.8472 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "second-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 12:46 on Fri 6 Jun to 10:12 on Sat 7 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-06T08:46:18Z → 2008-06-07T06:11:48Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:57–12:45 on the 6th, 11:57–12:45 on the 7th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during madhyāhna. 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Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. It is called Angaraka caturthi if it falls on Tuesday." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-07", "confidence": "boundary" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-06", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vināyaka Caturthī 2008 falls on Saturday 7 June. Caturthī runs from 12:46 on Fri 6 Jun to 10:12 on Sat 7 Jun, and reaches madhyāhna on neither day. It is 1 min 06 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-06-07", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/aranya-gauri-vrata", "festival": "aranya-gauri-vrata", "name": "Araṇya Gaurī Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-08", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 13090, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 5, "key": "shashthi", "name": "Ṣaṣṭhī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-08T08:19:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-08T04:19:24Z", "ms": 1212898763809.3254 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-09T07:13:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-09T03:13:31Z", "ms": 1212981211292.0962 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 2, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-08T08:19:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-08T04:19:24Z", "ms": 1212898763809.3254 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-09T07:13:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-09T03:13:31Z", "ms": 1212981211292.0962 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-08", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-08T11:57:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-08T07:57:34Z", "ms": 1212911854187.3916 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-08T12:45:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-08T08:45:34Z", "ms": 1212914734187.3916 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-06-09", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-09T11:57:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-09T07:57:46Z", "ms": 1212998265696.853 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-09T12:45:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-09T08:45:46Z", "ms": 1213001145696.853 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 08:19 on Sun 8 Jun to 07:14 on Mon 9 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-08T04:19:24Z → 2008-06-09T03:13:31Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:58–12:46 on the 8th, 11:58–12:46 on the 9th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ṣaṣṭhī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 48 on the 9th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 13090 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Araṇya Gaurī Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 8 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "aranya-gauri-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 6 Aranya sasthi, Aranya gauri vrata, (paraviddha), Skanda sasthi, (purvaviddha), Sitala sasthi yatra (Orissa)" } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-08", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-08", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Araṇya Gaurī Vrata 2008 falls on Sunday 8 June. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 13090 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha), Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 8 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "skanda-shashthi-jyaishtha", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 6 Aranya sasthi, Aranya gauri vrata, (paraviddha), Skanda sasthi, (purvaviddha), Sitala sasthi yatra (Orissa)" } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-08", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-08", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī (Jyaiṣṭha) 2008 falls on Sunday 8 June. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-14", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-14", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Nirjalā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Saturday 14 June. 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Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 762 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śrī Rāma Dvādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 14 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shri-rama-dvadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 12 Sri Rama dvadasi (purvaviddha), Campaka dvadasi (Orissa) (purvaviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-14", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-14", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śrī Rāma Dvādaśī 2008 falls on Saturday 14 June. Dvādaśī runs from 12:11 on Sat 14 Jun to 14:28 on Sun 15 Jun and covers 35 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. 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Trayodaśī runs from 14:28 on Sun 15 Jun to 16:51 on Mon 16 Jun and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-06-15", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vata-savitri-vrata", "festival": "vata-savitri-vrata", "name": "Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-17", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "margin" ], "boundary_margin_s": 32, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 14, "key": "purnima", "name": "Pūrṇimā", "start": { "local": "2008-06-17T19:13:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-17T15:13:11Z", "ms": 1213715591013.8093 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-18T21:30:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-18T17:30:29Z", "ms": 1213810228996.3687 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 2, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-17T19:13:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-17T15:13:11Z", "ms": 1213715591013.8093 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-18T21:30:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-18T17:30:29Z", "ms": 1213810228996.3687 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-17", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-17T19:12:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-17T15:12:39Z", "ms": 1213715559193.1426 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-17T20:35:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-17T16:35:32Z", "ms": 1213720532355.6594 } }, "covered_min": 82, "window_min": 83, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-06-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-18T19:12:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-18T15:12:55Z", "ms": 1213801974800.5938 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-18T20:35:47+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-18T16:35:47Z", "ms": 1213806947310.2188 } }, "covered_min": 83, "window_min": 83, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "purvaviddha", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pūrṇimā runs from 19:13 on Tue 17 Jun to 21:30 on Wed 18 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-17T15:13:11Z → 2008-06-18T17:30:29Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:13–20:36 on the 17th, 19:13–20:36 on the 18th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pūrṇimā must be present during pradoṣa. 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Pūrvaviddhā: the first is taken.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → purvaviddha · margin 32 s < 300 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 17 June.", "fact": "confidence: boundary (margin)" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vata-savitri-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 15 Vata-savitri vrata (Deccan) (pradosavyapini, purvaviddha), Snanayatra (Bengal & Orissa) (paraviddha)." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-17", "confidence": "boundary" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-17", "confidence": "boundary" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vaṭa Sāvitrī Vrata 2008 falls on Tuesday 17 June. Pūrṇimā runs from 19:13 on Tue 17 Jun to 21:30 on Wed 18 Jun and covers 82 of 83 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 83 minutes; by the rule the first evening is taken. It is 0 min 32 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vata-savitri-vrata", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-06-22", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-22", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 20270, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-22T03:07:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-21T23:07:10Z", "ms": 1214089630310.218 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-23T04:18:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-23T00:18:44Z", "ms": 1214180323563.719 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-22T03:07:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-21T23:07:10Z", "ms": 1214089630310.218 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-23T04:18:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-23T00:18:44Z", "ms": 1214180323563.719 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-21T21:29:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-21T17:29:20Z", "ms": 1214069359906.9922 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-21T21:29:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-21T17:29:20Z", "ms": 1214069359906.9922 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-06-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-22T22:06:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-22T18:06:08Z", "ms": 1214157967773.1724 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-22T22:06:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-22T18:06:08Z", "ms": 1214157967773.1724 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 03:07 on Sun 22 Jun to 04:19 on Mon 23 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-21T23:07:10Z → 2008-06-23T00:18:44Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 21:29 on the 21st and 22:06 on the 22nd.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 21st and is on the 22nd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 20270 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 22 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "sankashta-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. It is called Angaraka caturthi if it falls on Tuesday." } ], "not_evaluated": "It is called Aṅgāraka Caturthī when it falls on a Tuesday; the weekday is not tested.", "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-22", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-22", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī 2008 falls on Sunday 22 June. Caturthī runs from 03:07 on Sun 22 Jun to 04:19 on Mon 23 Jun and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-06-22", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-06-29", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Yoginī Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-29", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 22859, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-28T23:16:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-28T19:16:04Z", "ms": 1214680564471.6418 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-29T20:20:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-29T16:20:31Z", "ms": 1214756431323.9526 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-28T23:16:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-28T19:16:04Z", "ms": 1214680564471.6418 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-29T20:20:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-29T16:20:31Z", "ms": 1214756431323.9526 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-29", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-29T05:37:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-29T01:37:04Z", "ms": 1214703423960.8125 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-29T05:37:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-29T01:37:04Z", "ms": 1214703423960.8125 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-06-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-30T05:37:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T01:37:24Z", "ms": 1214789843807.7732 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-30T05:37:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T01:37:24Z", "ms": 1214789843807.7732 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 23:16 on Sat 28 Jun to 20:21 on Sun 29 Jun.", "fact": "2008-06-28T19:16:04Z → 2008-06-29T16:20:31Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 05:37 on the 29th and 05:37 on the 30th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-29", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-29", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Yoginī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 29 June. Ekādaśī runs from 23:16 on Sat 28 Jun to 20:21 on Sun 29 Jun and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-06-29", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-06-30", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-06-30", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 7978, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 27, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-06-30T17:01:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T13:01:48Z", "ms": 1214830908423.2283 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-01T13:28:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T09:28:43Z", "ms": 1214904523385.302 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-06-30T17:01:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T13:01:48Z", "ms": 1214830908423.2283 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-01T13:28:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T09:28:43Z", "ms": 1214904523385.302 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-06-30T19:14:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T15:14:46Z", "ms": 1214838886154.094 }, "end": { "local": "2008-06-30T20:37:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T16:37:50Z", "ms": 1214843869910.5605 } }, "covered_min": 83, "window_min": 83, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-01", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-01T19:14:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T15:14:49Z", "ms": 1214925288523.041 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-01T20:37:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T16:37:55Z", "ms": 1214930274784.786 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 83, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 17:02 on Mon 30 Jun to 13:29 on Tue 1 Jul.", "fact": "2008-06-30T13:01:48Z → 2008-07-01T09:28:43Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:15–20:38 on the 30th, 19:15–20:38 on the 1st.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 83 of 83 minutes on the 30th and 0 of 83 on the 1st.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7978 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 30 June.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-30", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-06-30", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Monday 30 June. Trayodaśī runs from 17:02 on Mon 30 Jun to 13:29 on Tue 1 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-06-30", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-07-01", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-01", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 32430, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-01T13:28:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T09:28:43Z", "ms": 1214904523385.302 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-02T09:50:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-02T05:50:57Z", "ms": 1214977856963.5156 }, "month": { "amanta": 2, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Jyeṣṭha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-01T13:28:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T09:28:43Z", "ms": 1214904523385.302 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-02T09:50:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-02T05:50:57Z", "ms": 1214977856963.5156 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-06-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-01T00:02:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T20:02:15Z", "ms": 1214856135240.8433 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-01T00:50:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-06-30T20:50:15Z", "ms": 1214859015240.8433 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-07-01", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-02T00:02:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T20:02:27Z", "ms": 1214942547004.584 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-02T00:50:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-01T20:50:27Z", "ms": 1214945427004.584 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 13:29 on Tue 1 Jul to 09:51 on Wed 2 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-01T09:28:43Z → 2008-07-02T05:50:57Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 00:02–00:50 on the 30th, 00:02–00:50 on the 1st.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 30th and 48 of 48 on the 1st.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one night qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 32430 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śivarātri, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 1 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shivaratri", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The krsna caturdasi in each month is called 'Sivaratri'. The chief among them is that of Magha. The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-01", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-01", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Tuesday 1 July. Caturdaśī runs from 13:29 on Tue 1 Jul to 09:51 on Wed 2 Jul and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-07-01", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/rathayatra", "festival": "rathayatra", "name": "Rathayātrā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-04", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 32465, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 1, "key": "dvitiya", "name": "Dvitīyā", "start": { "local": "2008-07-04T03:01:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-03T23:01:44Z", "ms": 1215126104480.4038 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-05T00:10:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-04T20:10:02Z", "ms": 1215202201592.9802 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-04T03:01:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-03T23:01:44Z", "ms": 1215126104480.4038 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-05T00:10:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-04T20:10:02Z", "ms": 1215202201592.9802 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-04", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-04T12:02:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-04T08:02:49Z", "ms": 1215158569114.7896 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-04T12:50:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-04T08:50:49Z", "ms": 1215161449114.7896 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-05", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-05T12:02:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T08:02:59Z", "ms": 1215244979375.0942 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-05T12:50:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T08:50:59Z", "ms": 1215247859375.0942 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Dvitīyā runs from 03:02 on Fri 4 Jul to 00:10 on Sat 5 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-03T23:01:44Z → 2008-07-04T20:10:02Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:03–12:51 on the 4th, 12:03–12:51 on the 5th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Dvitīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 4th and 0 of 48 on the 5th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 32465 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Rathayātrā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 4 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "rathayatra", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 2 Rathayatra (paraviddha, special when combined with naksatra 'Pusya')" } ], "not_evaluated": "The row calls the day special with Puṣya nakṣatra; the nakṣatra is not tested.", "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-04", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-04", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Rathayātrā 2008 falls on Friday 4 July. Dvitīyā runs from 03:02 on Fri 4 Jul to 00:10 on Sat 5 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/rathayatra", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vinayaka-chaturthi?on=2008-07-06", "festival": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "name": "Vināyaka Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-06", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 26625, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 3, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-05T21:52:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T17:52:05Z", "ms": 1215280324587.829 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-06T20:14:54+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-06T16:14:54Z", "ms": 1215360893905.3247 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-05T21:52:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T17:52:05Z", "ms": 1215280324587.829 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-06T20:14:54+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-06T16:14:54Z", "ms": 1215360893905.3247 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-05", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-05T12:02:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T08:02:59Z", "ms": 1215244979375.0942 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-05T12:50:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-05T08:50:59Z", "ms": 1215247859375.0942 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-07-06", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-06T12:03:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-06T08:03:09Z", "ms": 1215331389275.9124 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-06T12:51:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-06T08:51:09Z", "ms": 1215334269275.9124 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 21:52 on Sat 5 Jul to 20:15 on Sun 6 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-05T17:52:05Z → 2008-07-06T16:14:54Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:03–12:51 on the 5th, 12:03–12:51 on the 6th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during madhyāhna. 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Saptamī runs from 19:19 on Tue 8 Jul to 19:59 on Wed 9 Jul and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vivasvat-saptami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-07-13", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Hariśayanī Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-13", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 7004, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 10, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-13T01:23:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-12T21:23:49Z", "ms": 1215897828641.555 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-14T03:46:13+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-13T23:46:13Z", "ms": 1215992773085.7908 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-13T01:23:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-12T21:23:49Z", "ms": 1215897828641.555 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-14T03:46:13+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-13T23:46:13Z", "ms": 1215992773085.7908 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-13", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-13T05:42:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-13T01:42:31Z", "ms": 1215913350729.5127 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-13T05:42:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-13T01:42:31Z", "ms": 1215913350729.5127 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-14T05:42:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-14T01:42:57Z", "ms": 1215999777005.5447 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-14T05:42:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-14T01:42:57Z", "ms": 1215999777005.5447 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 01:24 on Sun 13 Jul to 03:46 on Mon 14 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-12T21:23:49Z → 2008-07-13T23:46:13Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 05:43 on the 13th and 05:43 on the 14th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is on the 13th and is not on the 14th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 7004 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Hariśayanī Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 13 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-13", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-13", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Hariśayanī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 13 July. Ekādaśī runs from 01:24 on Sun 13 Jul to 03:46 on Mon 14 Jul and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-07-13", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-07-15", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-15", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 34252, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 12, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-15T06:08:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-15T02:08:20Z", "ms": 1216087700476.348 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-16T08:21:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-16T04:21:46Z", "ms": 1216182106102.0725 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-15T06:08:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-15T02:08:20Z", "ms": 1216087700476.348 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-16T08:21:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-16T04:21:46Z", "ms": 1216182106102.0725 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-14T19:13:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-14T15:13:29Z", "ms": 1216048409453.345 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-14T20:37:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-14T16:37:29Z", "ms": 1216053448662.9807 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 84, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-07-15", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-15T19:13:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-15T15:13:15Z", "ms": 1216134794649.11 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-15T20:37:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-15T16:37:19Z", "ms": 1216139839398.0383 } }, "covered_min": 84, "window_min": 84, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 06:08 on Tue 15 Jul to 08:22 on Wed 16 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-15T02:08:20Z → 2008-07-16T04:21:46Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 19:13–20:37 on the 14th, 19:13–20:37 on the 15th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 84 minutes on the 14th and 84 of 84 on the 15th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 34252 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 15 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-15", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-15", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Tuesday 15 July. Trayodaśī runs from 06:08 on Tue 15 Jul to 08:22 on Wed 16 Jul and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-07-15", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/guru-purnima", "festival": "guru-purnima", "name": "Guru Pūrṇimā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-17", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 329, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 14, "key": "purnima", "name": "Pūrṇimā", "start": { "local": "2008-07-17T10:20:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-17T06:20:10Z", "ms": 1216275609619.5845 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-18T11:59:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-18T07:59:05Z", "ms": 1216367944934.465 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 3, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Āṣāḍha" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-17T10:20:10+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-17T06:20:10Z", "ms": 1216275609619.5845 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-18T11:59:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-18T07:59:05Z", "ms": 1216367944934.465 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-17", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-17T12:04:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-17T08:04:29Z", "ms": 1216281869249.3267 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-17T12:52:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-17T08:52:29Z", "ms": 1216284749249.3267 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-18T12:04:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-18T08:04:34Z", "ms": 1216368273536.1782 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-18T12:52:34+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-18T08:52:34Z", "ms": 1216371153536.1782 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pūrṇimā runs from 10:20 on Thu 17 Jul to 11:59 on Fri 18 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-17T06:20:10Z → 2008-07-18T07:59:05Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 17th, 12:05–12:53 on the 18th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pūrṇimā must be present during madhyāhna. 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Pūrṇimā runs from 10:20 on Thu 17 Jul to 11:59 on Fri 18 Jul and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vyasa-puja", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ashunya-shayana-vrata-ashadha", "festival": "ashunya-shayana-vrata-ashadha", "name": "Aśūnya Śayana Vrata (Āṣāḍha)", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-19", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 23687, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 16, "key": "dvitiya", "name": "Dvitīyā", "start": { "local": "2008-07-19T13:15:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-19T09:15:32Z", "ms": 1216458932420.196 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-20T14:07:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-20T10:07:27Z", "ms": 1216548447243.8708 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-19T13:15:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-19T09:15:32Z", "ms": 1216458932420.196 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-20T14:07:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-20T10:07:27Z", "ms": 1216548447243.8708 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-19T20:07:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-19T16:07:07Z", "ms": 1216483626678.774 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-19T20:07:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-19T16:07:07Z", "ms": 1216483626678.774 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-20T20:42:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-20T16:42:15Z", "ms": 1216572134517.5688 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-20T20:42:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-20T16:42:15Z", "ms": 1216572134517.5688 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Dvitīyā runs from 13:16 on Sat 19 Jul to 14:07 on Sun 20 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-19T09:15:32Z → 2008-07-20T10:07:27Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 20:07 on the 19th and 20:42 on the 20th.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Dvitīyā must be current at moonrise. It is on the 19th and is not on the 20th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 102" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 23687 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Aśūnya Śayana Vrata (Āṣāḍha), Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 19 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ashunya-shayana-vrata-ashadha", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 2 Asunya sayana vrata (candrodaya vyapini; purvahna vyapini and purvaviddha in Bengal)." } ], "not_evaluated": "In Bengal the row reads pūrvāhṇa and pūrvaviddha; that reading is not applied.", "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-19", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-19", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Aśūnya Śayana Vrata (Āṣāḍha) 2008 falls on Saturday 19 July. Dvitīyā runs from 13:16 on Sat 19 Jul to 14:07 on Sun 20 Jul and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ashunya-shayana-vrata-ashadha", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-07-21", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-21", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 24129, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-21T14:33:14+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-21T10:33:14Z", "ms": 1216636394450.1514 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-22T14:31:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-22T10:31:37Z", "ms": 1216722696705.225 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-21T14:33:14+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-21T10:33:14Z", "ms": 1216636394450.1514 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-22T14:31:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-22T10:31:37Z", "ms": 1216722696705.225 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-21T21:15:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-21T17:15:23Z", "ms": 1216660523203.7239 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-21T21:15:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-21T17:15:23Z", "ms": 1216660523203.7239 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-22T21:47:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-22T17:47:46Z", "ms": 1216748866413.7993 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-22T21:47:46+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-22T17:47:46Z", "ms": 1216748866413.7993 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 14:33 on Mon 21 Jul to 14:32 on Tue 22 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-21T10:33:14Z → 2008-07-22T10:31:37Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 21:15 on the 21st and 21:48 on the 22nd.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-28", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-28", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kāmikā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Monday 28 July. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2433 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 30 July.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-30", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-30", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Wednesday 30 July. Trayodaśī runs from 22:50 on Tue 29 Jul to 19:48 on Wed 30 Jul and covers 41 of 86 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-07-30", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-07-30", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-07-30", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 15436, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-07-30T19:47:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-30T15:47:39Z", "ms": 1217432859207.2913 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-31T16:52:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-31T12:52:31Z", "ms": 1217508750815.6155 }, "month": { "amanta": 3, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āṣāḍha", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-07-30T19:47:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-30T15:47:39Z", "ms": 1217432859207.2913 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-31T16:52:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-31T12:52:31Z", "ms": 1217508750815.6155 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-07-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-07-31T00:04:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-30T20:04:55Z", "ms": 1217448295406.0854 }, "end": { "local": "2008-07-31T00:52:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-30T20:52:55Z", "ms": 1217451175406.0854 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-07-31", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-01T00:04:52+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-31T20:04:52Z", "ms": 1217534692283.7192 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-01T00:52:52+04:00", "utc": "2008-07-31T20:52:52Z", "ms": 1217537572283.7192 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 19:48 on Wed 30 Jul to 16:53 on Thu 31 Jul.", "fact": "2008-07-30T15:47:39Z → 2008-07-31T12:52:31Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 00:05–00:53 on the 30th, 00:05–00:53 on the 31st.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. 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The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-30", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-07-30", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Wednesday 30 July. Caturdaśī runs from 19:48 on Wed 30 Jul to 16:53 on Thu 31 Jul and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-07-30", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/madhusrava-tritiya", "festival": "madhusrava-tritiya", "name": "Madhusravā Tṛtīyā", "everyday": "Hariyali Teej", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-03", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 6876, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 2, "key": "tritiya", "name": "Tṛtīyā", "start": { "local": "2008-08-03T10:09:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-03T06:09:50Z", "ms": 1217743789995.5725 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-04T09:00:52+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-04T05:00:52Z", "ms": 1217826051629.1045 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-03T10:09:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-03T06:09:50Z", "ms": 1217743789995.5725 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-04T09:00:52+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-04T05:00:52Z", "ms": 1217826051629.1045 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-03", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-03T12:04:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-03T08:04:26Z", "ms": 1217750665638.5757 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-03T12:52:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-03T08:52:26Z", "ms": 1217753545638.5757 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-08-04", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-04T12:04:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-04T08:04:20Z", "ms": 1217837060142.9614 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-04T12:52:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-04T08:52:20Z", "ms": 1217839940142.9614 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Tṛtīyā runs from 10:10 on Sun 3 Aug to 09:01 on Mon 4 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-03T06:09:50Z → 2008-08-04T05:00:52Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:04–12:52 on the 3rd, 12:04–12:52 on the 4th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Tṛtīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 3rd and 0 of 48 on the 4th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. 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Pañcamī runs from 08:33 on Tue 5 Aug to 08:49 on Wed 6 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/naga-panchami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-08-12", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Putradā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-12", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 34557, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 10, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-11T18:06:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-11T14:06:04Z", "ms": 1218463564347.8828 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-12T20:20:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-12T16:20:33Z", "ms": 1218558033412.8245 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-11T18:06:04+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-11T14:06:04Z", "ms": 1218463564347.8828 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-12T20:20:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-12T16:20:33Z", "ms": 1218558033412.8245 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-12", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-12T05:56:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-12T01:56:05Z", "ms": 1218506165017.4475 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-12T05:56:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-12T01:56:05Z", "ms": 1218506165017.4475 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-08-13", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-13T05:56:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T01:56:30Z", "ms": 1218592590456.7014 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-13T05:56:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T01:56:30Z", "ms": 1218592590456.7014 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 18:06 on Mon 11 Aug to 20:21 on Tue 12 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-11T14:06:04Z → 2008-08-12T16:20:33Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 05:56 on the 12th and 05:57 on the 13th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is on the 12th and is not on the 13th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 34557 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Putradā Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 12 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-12", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-12", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Putradā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Tuesday 12 August. 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It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 12th and 48 of 48 on the 13th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 26959 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Dāmodara Dvādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 13 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "damodara-dvadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 12 Buddha dvadasi, Damodara dvadasi (purvaviddha), Visnu-pavitraropana." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-13", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-13", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Dāmodara Dvādaśī 2008 falls on Wednesday 13 August. Dvādaśī runs from 20:21 on Tue 12 Aug to 22:17 on Wed 13 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/damodara-dvadashi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-08-14", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-14", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 6665, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 12, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-13T22:16:36+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T18:16:36Z", "ms": 1218651396302.5715 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-14T23:46:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-14T19:46:57Z", "ms": 1218743217144.3616 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 4, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-13T22:16:36+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T18:16:36Z", "ms": 1218651396302.5715 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-14T23:46:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-14T19:46:57Z", "ms": 1218743217144.3616 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-13", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-13T18:57:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T14:57:37Z", "ms": 1218639456950.0854 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-13T20:25:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-13T16:25:31Z", "ms": 1218644731446.4417 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 88, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-14T18:56:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-14T14:56:49Z", "ms": 1218725808986.3386 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-14T20:24:53+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-14T16:24:53Z", "ms": 1218731093210.251 } }, "covered_min": 88, "window_min": 88, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 22:17 on Wed 13 Aug to 23:47 on Thu 14 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-13T18:16:36Z → 2008-08-14T19:46:57Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:58–20:26 on the 13th, 18:57–20:25 on the 14th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. 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It is not on the 17th and is on the 18th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 17695 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Aśūnya Śayana Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 18 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ashunya-shayana-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 2 Asunyasayana vrata (Dvitiya current at moonrise; if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day)." } ], "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-18", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-18", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Aśūnya Śayana Vrata 2008 falls on Monday 18 August. Dvitīyā runs from 01:15 on Mon 18 Aug to 00:45 on Tue 19 Aug and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ashunya-shayana-vrata", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/kajjali-tritiya", "festival": "kajjali-tritiya", "name": "Kajjalī Tṛtīyā", "everyday": "Kajari Teej", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-19", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 39531, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 17, "key": "tritiya", "name": "Tṛtīyā", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T00:44:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-18T20:44:33Z", "ms": 1219092273054.599 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T00:44:33+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-18T20:44:33Z", "ms": 1219092273054.599 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-18T12:02:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-18T08:02:02Z", "ms": 1219046521554.2483 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-18T12:50:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-18T08:50:02Z", "ms": 1219049401554.2483 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T12:01:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T08:01:48Z", "ms": 1219132907609.5542 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-19T12:49:48+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T08:49:48Z", "ms": 1219135787609.5542 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Tṛtīyā runs from 00:45 on Tue 19 Aug to 23:49 on Tue 19 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-18T20:44:33Z → 2008-08-19T19:48:39Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:02–12:50 on the 18th, 12:02–12:50 on the 19th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Tṛtīyā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 18th and 48 of 48 on the 19th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 39531 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kajjalī Tṛtīyā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 19 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "kajjali-tritiya", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 3 Kajjali trtiya, (paraviddha), Angaveta trtiya (Orissa)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-19", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-19", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kajjalī Tṛtīyā (Kajari Teej) 2008 falls on Tuesday 19 August. Tṛtīyā runs from 00:45 on Tue 19 Aug to 23:49 on Tue 19 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/kajjali-tritiya", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/bahula-chaturthi", "festival": "bahula-chaturthi", "name": "Bahulā Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 13122, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T22:30:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T18:30:26Z", "ms": 1219257026181.2625 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T22:30:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T18:30:26Z", "ms": 1219257026181.2625 } }, "kaala": "sayahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T16:17:53+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T12:17:53Z", "ms": 1219148273102.1543 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-19T18:52:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T14:52:37Z", "ms": 1219157556763.8877 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 155, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-20T16:17:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T12:17:16Z", "ms": 1219234635683.4917 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T18:51:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T14:51:44Z", "ms": 1219243904009.3933 } }, "covered_min": 154, "window_min": 154, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 23:49 on Tue 19 Aug to 22:30 on Wed 20 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z → 2008-08-20T18:30:26Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sāyāhna is last 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 16:18–18:53 on the 19th, 16:17–18:52 on the 20th.", "fact": "sayahna: day-muhurta-13-15 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be present during sāyāhna. It covers 0 of 155 minutes on the 19th and 154 of 154 on the 20th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one late afternoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 13122 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Bahulā Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 20 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "bahula-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 4 Bahula caturthi (Madhyadesa) (Sayahnavyapini: if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the 1st day)." } ], "kaala": "sayahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Bahulā Caturthī 2008 falls on Wednesday 20 August. Caturthī runs from 23:49 on Tue 19 Aug to 22:30 on Wed 20 Aug and covers all of sāyāhna that late afternoon.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/bahula-chaturthi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-08-20", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 5578, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T22:30:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T18:30:26Z", "ms": 1219257026181.2625 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T23:48:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z", "ms": 1219175318669.2334 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T22:30:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T18:30:26Z", "ms": 1219257026181.2625 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-19", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-19T20:22:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T16:22:49Z", "ms": 1219162968604.863 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-19T20:22:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-19T16:22:49Z", "ms": 1219162968604.863 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-20T20:57:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T16:57:28Z", "ms": 1219251447865.729 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-20T20:57:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-20T16:57:28Z", "ms": 1219251447865.729 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 23:49 on Tue 19 Aug to 22:30 on Wed 20 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-19T19:48:39Z → 2008-08-20T18:30:26Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 20:23 on the 19th and 20:57 on the 20th.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. 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It is called Angaraka caturthi if it falls on Tuesday." } ], "not_evaluated": "It is called Aṅgāraka Caturthī when it falls on a Tuesday; the weekday is not tested.", "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-20", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī 2008 falls on Wednesday 20 August. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 22299 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Hala Ṣaṣṭhī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 22 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "hala-shashthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 6 Hala sasthi (paraviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-22", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-22", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Hala Ṣaṣṭhī 2008 falls on Friday 22 August. Ṣaṣṭhī runs from 20:53 on Thu 21 Aug to 19:01 on Fri 22 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/hala-shashthi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/janmashtami", "festival": "janmashtami", "name": "Janmāṣṭamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 25517, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 22, "key": "ashtami", "name": "Aṣṭamī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-23T16:55:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T12:55:42Z", "ms": 1219496142067.9844 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-24T14:41:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-24T10:41:29Z", "ms": 1219574489426.277 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-23T16:55:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T12:55:42Z", "ms": 1219496142067.9844 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-24T14:41:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-24T10:41:29Z", "ms": 1219574489426.277 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-23", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-24T00:00:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T20:00:59Z", "ms": 1219521658873.6497 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-24T00:48:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T20:48:59Z", "ms": 1219524538873.6497 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-08-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-25T00:00:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-24T20:00:43Z", "ms": 1219608042647.9395 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-25T00:48:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-24T20:48:43Z", "ms": 1219610922647.9395 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Aṣṭamī runs from 16:56 on Sat 23 Aug to 14:41 on Sun 24 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-23T12:55:42Z → 2008-08-24T10:41:29Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 00:01–00:49 on the 23rd, 00:01–00:49 on the 24th.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Aṣṭamī must be present during niśītha. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 23rd and 0 of 48 on the 24th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one night qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 25517 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Janmāṣṭamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 23 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "janmashtami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 8 Janmastami (madhyaratra-vyapini), if midnight is covered on two days, or not on any day, it is to be observed on the 2nd day; special when combined with naksatra 'Rohini' at midnight, more so when on Monday or Wednesday. If the combination occurs before midnight and 'Rohini' extends up to midnight, it is to be observed on that day. Gokulastami." } ], "not_evaluated": "The clauses on Rohiṇī nakṣatra, the Vaiṣṇava observance on the day after saptamī, and the Assam and South India reckoning in the solar month belong to other readings and are not applied.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Janmāṣṭamī 2008 falls on Saturday 23 August. Aṣṭamī runs from 16:56 on Sat 23 Aug to 14:41 on Sun 24 Aug and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/janmashtami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shitala-saptami", "festival": "shitala-saptami", "name": "Śītalā Saptamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 14815, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 21, "key": "saptami", "name": "Saptamī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-22T19:00:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-22T15:00:42Z", "ms": 1219417241967.6602 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-23T16:55:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T12:55:42Z", "ms": 1219496142067.9844 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-22T19:00:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-22T15:00:42Z", "ms": 1219417241967.6602 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-23T16:55:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T12:55:42Z", "ms": 1219496142067.9844 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-22T12:01:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-22T08:01:03Z", "ms": 1219392063017.3274 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-22T12:49:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-22T08:49:03Z", "ms": 1219394943017.3274 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-23", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-23T12:00:47+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T08:00:47Z", "ms": 1219478447286.31 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-23T12:48:47+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-23T08:48:47Z", "ms": 1219481327286.31 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Saptamī runs from 19:01 on Fri 22 Aug to 16:56 on Sat 23 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-22T15:00:42Z → 2008-08-23T12:55:42Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:01–12:49 on the 22nd, 12:01–12:49 on the 23rd.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Saptamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 22nd and 48 of 48 on the 23rd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 14815 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śītalā Saptamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 23 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "shitala-saptami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 7 Sitala saptami (purvaviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-23", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śītalā Saptamī 2008 falls on Saturday 23 August. Saptamī runs from 19:01 on Fri 22 Aug to 16:56 on Sat 23 Aug and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shitala-saptami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-08-27", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Ajā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-08-27", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 5695, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-08-26T09:58:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-26T05:58:30Z", "ms": 1219730310272.9263 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-27T07:37:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-27T03:37:00Z", "ms": 1219808220090.888 }, "month": { "amanta": 4, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Śrāvaṇa", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-08-26T09:58:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-26T05:58:30Z", "ms": 1219730310272.9263 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-27T07:37:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-27T03:37:00Z", "ms": 1219808220090.888 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-08-26", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-26T06:01:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-26T02:01:42Z", "ms": 1219716102005.5764 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-26T06:01:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-26T02:01:42Z", "ms": 1219716102005.5764 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-08-27", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-08-27T06:02:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-27T02:02:05Z", "ms": 1219802524671.3364 }, "end": { "local": "2008-08-27T06:02:05+04:00", "utc": "2008-08-27T02:02:05Z", "ms": 1219802524671.3364 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 09:59 on Tue 26 Aug to 07:37 on Wed 27 Aug.", "fact": "2008-08-26T05:58:30Z → 2008-08-27T03:37:00Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:02 on the 26th and 06:02 on the 27th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-27", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-27", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Ajā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Wednesday 27 August. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 25254 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 28 August.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-28", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-08-28", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Thursday 28 August. 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It covers 93 of 93 minutes on the 12th and 0 of 93 on the 13th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 14057 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 12 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-12", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-12", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Friday 12 September. Trayodaśī runs from 14:16 on Fri 12 Sep to 14:34 on Sat 13 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-09-12", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ananta-chaturdashi", "festival": "ananta-chaturdashi", "name": "Ananta Caturdaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-14", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 20140, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 13, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-13T14:33:41+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-13T10:33:41Z", "ms": 1221302021360.1833 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-14T14:11:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-14T10:11:50Z", "ms": 1221387110464.7183 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 5, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Bhādrapada" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-13T14:33:41+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-13T10:33:41Z", "ms": 1221302021360.1833 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-14T14:11:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-14T10:11:50Z", "ms": 1221387110464.7183 } }, "kaala": "udaya-3", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-13", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-13T06:08:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-13T02:08:09Z", "ms": 1221271689058.449 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-13T08:36:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-13T04:36:07Z", "ms": 1221280566851.604 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 148, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-09-14", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-14T06:08:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-14T02:08:30Z", "ms": 1221358109764.1526 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-14T08:36:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-14T04:36:11Z", "ms": 1221366970709.8767 } }, "covered_min": 148, "window_min": 148, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 14:34 on Sat 13 Sep to 14:12 on Sun 14 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-13T10:33:41Z → 2008-09-14T10:11:50Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "The first three muhūrtas after sunrise is first 3 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:08–08:36 on the 13th, 06:08–08:36 on the 14th.", "fact": "udaya-3: day-muhurta-1-3 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must hold through the first three muhūrtas after sunrise. It covers 0 of 148 minutes on the 13th and 148 of 148 on the 14th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one morning qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 20140 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Ananta Caturdaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 14 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ananta-chaturdashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 14 Ananta caturdasi (covering three muhurtas from sunrise, but one muhurta in Bengal)." } ], "not_evaluated": "In Bengal the row asks for one muhūrta from sunrise; that reading is not applied.", "kaala": "udaya-3", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-14", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-14", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Ananta Caturdaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 14 September. Caturdaśī runs from 14:34 on Sat 13 Sep to 14:12 on Sun 14 Sep and covers all of the first three muhūrtas after sunrise that morning.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ananta-chaturdashi", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-09-18", "festival": "sankashta-chaturthi", "name": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-18", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 32429, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 18, "key": "chaturthi", "name": "Caturthī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-18T07:38:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-18T03:38:12Z", "ms": 1221709092320.0999 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-19T05:16:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-19T01:16:30Z", "ms": 1221786989929.7688 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-18T07:38:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-18T03:38:12Z", "ms": 1221709092320.0999 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-19T05:16:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-19T01:16:30Z", "ms": 1221786989929.7688 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-17", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-17T19:34:25+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-17T15:34:25Z", "ms": 1221665664647.909 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-17T19:34:25+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-17T15:34:25Z", "ms": 1221665664647.909 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-09-18", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-18T20:16:01+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-18T16:16:01Z", "ms": 1221754561244.4717 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-18T20:16:01+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-18T16:16:01Z", "ms": 1221754561244.4717 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturthī runs from 07:38 on Thu 18 Sep to 05:16 on Fri 19 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-18T03:38:12Z → 2008-09-19T01:16:30Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 19:34 on the 17th and 20:16 on the 18th.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturthī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 17th and is on the 18th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 32429 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Saṅkaṣṭa Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 18 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "sankashta-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 9008 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Candra Ṣaṣṭhī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Saturday 20 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "chandra-shashthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 6 Candra sasthi (Sasthi current at moon-rise, if occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the first day)." } ], "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-20", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-20", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Candra Ṣaṣṭhī 2008 falls on Saturday 20 September. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2848 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Mahālakṣmī Vrata Samāpana, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 21 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "mahalakshmi-vrata-samapana", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja" } ], "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-21", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-21", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Mahālakṣmī Vrata Samāpana 2008 falls on Sunday 21 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:10 on Sun 21 Sep to 20:02 on Mon 22 Sep and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahalakshmi-vrata-samapana", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/jitashtami", "festival": "jitashtami", "name": "Jitāṣṭamī", "everyday": "Jitiya", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-22", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 492, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 22, "key": "ashtami", "name": "Aṣṭamī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-21T22:09:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-21T18:09:43Z", "ms": 1222020582552.9995 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-22T20:01:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-22T16:01:43Z", "ms": 1222099302623.9966 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-21T22:09:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-21T18:09:43Z", "ms": 1222020582552.9995 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-22T20:01:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-22T16:01:43Z", "ms": 1222099302623.9966 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-21T18:19:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-21T14:19:28Z", "ms": 1222006768408.0728 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-21T19:54:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-21T15:54:23Z", "ms": 1222012462909.168 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 95, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-09-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-22T18:18:25+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-22T14:18:25Z", "ms": 1222093104830.2576 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-22T19:53:31+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-22T15:53:31Z", "ms": 1222098810663.8943 } }, "covered_min": 95, "window_min": 95, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Aṣṭamī runs from 22:10 on Sun 21 Sep to 20:02 on Mon 22 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-21T18:09:43Z → 2008-09-22T16:01:43Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:19–19:54 on the 21st, 18:18–19:54 on the 22nd.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Aṣṭamī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 95 minutes on the 21st and 95 of 95 on the 22nd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 492 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Jitāṣṭamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 22 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "jitashtami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 8 Mahalaksmi vrata samapana (current at moonrise), Jitastami (pradosa), Jimutavahana puja" } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-22", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-22", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Jitāṣṭamī (Jitiya) 2008 falls on Monday 22 September. Aṣṭamī runs from 22:10 on Sun 21 Sep to 20:02 on Mon 22 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/jitashtami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-09-25", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Indirā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-25", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 31376, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-24T16:22:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-24T12:22:59Z", "ms": 1222258979086.315 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-25T14:55:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-25T10:55:18Z", "ms": 1222340117535.238 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-24T16:22:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-24T12:22:59Z", "ms": 1222258979086.315 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-25T14:55:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-25T10:55:18Z", "ms": 1222340117535.238 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-24T06:12:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-24T02:12:00Z", "ms": 1222222320159.929 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-24T06:12:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-24T02:12:00Z", "ms": 1222222320159.929 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-09-25", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-25T06:12:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-25T02:12:22Z", "ms": 1222308741910.9026 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-25T06:12:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-25T02:12:22Z", "ms": 1222308741910.9026 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 16:23 on Wed 24 Sep to 14:55 on Thu 25 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-24T12:22:59Z → 2008-09-25T10:55:18Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:12 on the 24th and 06:12 on the 25th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is not on the 24th and is on the 25th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 31376 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Indirā Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 25 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-25", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-25", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Indirā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Thursday 25 September. Ekādaśī runs from 16:23 on Wed 24 Sep to 14:55 on Thu 25 Sep and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-09-25", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-09-26", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-26", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 16209, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 27, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-26T13:44:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-26T09:44:03Z", "ms": 1222422242616.6636 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-27T12:51:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T08:51:16Z", "ms": 1222505475891.262 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-26T13:44:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-26T09:44:03Z", "ms": 1222422242616.6636 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-27T12:51:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T08:51:16Z", "ms": 1222505475891.262 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-26", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-26T18:14:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-26T14:14:12Z", "ms": 1222438451984.1108 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-26T19:50:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-26T15:50:03Z", "ms": 1222444203183.4353 } }, "covered_min": 96, "window_min": 96, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-09-27", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-27T18:13:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T14:13:09Z", "ms": 1222524789264.8127 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-27T19:49:12+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T15:49:12Z", "ms": 1222530551805.1628 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 96, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 13:44 on Fri 26 Sep to 12:51 on Sat 27 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-26T09:44:03Z → 2008-09-27T08:51:16Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:14–19:50 on the 26th, 18:13–19:49 on the 27th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 96 of 96 minutes on the 26th and 0 of 96 on the 27th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 16209 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 26 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-26", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-26", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Friday 26 September. Trayodaśī runs from 13:44 on Fri 26 Sep to 12:51 on Sat 27 Sep and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-09-26", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-09-27", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-27", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 39483, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-09-27T12:51:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T08:51:16Z", "ms": 1222505475891.262 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-28T12:19:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T08:19:37Z", "ms": 1222589976742.9207 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-27T12:51:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T08:51:16Z", "ms": 1222505475891.262 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-28T12:19:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T08:19:37Z", "ms": 1222589976742.9207 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-27", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-27T23:49:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T19:49:19Z", "ms": 1222544958791.126 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-28T00:37:19+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-27T20:37:19Z", "ms": 1222547838791.126 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-09-28", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-28T23:48:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T19:48:59Z", "ms": 1222631338831.5576 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-29T00:36:59+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T20:36:59Z", "ms": 1222634218831.5576 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 12:51 on Sat 27 Sep to 12:20 on Sun 28 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-27T08:51:16Z → 2008-09-28T08:19:37Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 23:49–00:37 on the 27th, 23:49–00:37 on the 28th.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. 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The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-27", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-27", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Saturday 27 September. Caturdaśī runs from 12:51 on Sat 27 Sep to 12:20 on Sun 28 Sep and covers all of niśītha that night.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-09-27", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahalaya-amavasya", "festival": "mahalaya-amavasya", "name": "Mahālaya Amāvāsyā", "everyday": "Sarvapitṛ Amāvāsyā", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-28", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 3903, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 29, "key": "amavasya", "name": "Amāvasyā", "start": { "local": "2008-09-28T12:19:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T08:19:37Z", "ms": 1222589976742.9207 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-29T12:12:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T08:12:15Z", "ms": 1222675934982.0906 }, "month": { "amanta": 5, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Bhādrapada", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-28T12:19:37+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T08:19:37Z", "ms": 1222589976742.9207 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-29T12:12:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T08:12:15Z", "ms": 1222675934982.0906 } }, "kaala": "aparahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-28", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-28T13:24:39+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T09:24:39Z", "ms": 1222593879401.492 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-28T15:48:23+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-28T11:48:23Z", "ms": 1222602503096.176 } }, "covered_min": 144, "window_min": 144, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-09-29", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-29T13:24:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T09:24:11Z", "ms": 1222680251100.4995 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-29T15:47:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T11:47:38Z", "ms": 1222688857843.2478 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 143, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Amāvasyā runs from 12:20 on Sun 28 Sep to 12:12 on Mon 29 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-28T08:19:37Z → 2008-09-29T08:12:15Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Aparāhṇa is 10th to 12th of 15 day muhūrtas: 13:25–15:48 on the 28th, 13:24–15:48 on the 29th.", "fact": "aparahna: day-muhurta-10-12 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Amāvasyā must be present during aparāhṇa. It covers 144 of 144 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 143 on the 29th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 103" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one afternoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3903 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Mahālaya Amāvāsyā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 28 September.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "mahalaya-amavasya", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 103", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 30 Mahalaya amavasya (aparahnavyapini)" } ], "not_evaluated": "The note on p. 106 gives the first day in a decreasing tithimāna and the second in an increasing one, when amāvāsyā covers the whole of aparāhṇa on both days; tithimāna is not computed.", "kaala": "aparahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-28", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-28", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Mahālaya Amāvāsyā 2008 falls on Sunday 28 September. Amāvasyā runs from 12:20 on Sun 28 Sep to 12:12 on Mon 29 Sep and covers all of aparāhṇa that afternoon.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahalaya-amavasya", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/navaratra-arambha", "festival": "navaratra-arambha", "name": "Navarātrārambha", "everyday": "Navratri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-09-30", "confidence": "boundary", "boundary_reasons": [ "margin" ], "boundary_margin_s": 223, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 0, "key": "pratipada", "name": "Pratipadā", "start": { "local": "2008-09-29T12:12:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T08:12:15Z", "ms": 1222675934982.0906 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-30T12:32:25+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-30T08:32:25Z", "ms": 1222763545423.351 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-09-29T12:12:15+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T08:12:15Z", "ms": 1222675934982.0906 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-30T12:32:25+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-30T08:32:25Z", "ms": 1222763545423.351 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-09-29", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-29T11:48:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T07:48:28Z", "ms": 1222674507729.1255 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-29T12:36:28+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-29T08:36:28Z", "ms": 1222677387729.1255 } }, "covered_min": 24, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-09-30", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-09-30T11:48:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-30T07:48:08Z", "ms": 1222760888163.729 }, "end": { "local": "2008-09-30T12:36:08+04:00", "utc": "2008-09-30T08:36:08Z", "ms": 1222763768163.729 } }, "covered_min": 44, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "paraviddha", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Pratipadā runs from 12:12 on Mon 29 Sep to 12:32 on Tue 30 Sep.", "fact": "2008-09-29T08:12:15Z → 2008-09-30T08:32:25Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:48–12:36 on the 29th, 11:48–12:36 on the 30th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Pratipadā must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 24 of 48 minutes on the 29th and 44 of 48 on the 30th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Both middays qualify. Paraviddhā: the second is taken.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → paraviddha · margin 223 s < 300 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Navarātrārambha, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 30 September.", "fact": "confidence: boundary (margin)" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "navaratra-arambha", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 1 Navaratrarambha (paraviddha)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-30", "confidence": "boundary" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-09-30", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Navarātrārambha (Navratri) 2008 falls on Tuesday 30 September. Pratipadā runs from 12:12 on Mon 29 Sep to 12:32 on Tue 30 Sep and covers 44 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It also reaches the previous midday for 24 minutes; by the rule the second midday is taken. 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It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 2nd and 48 of 48 on the 3rd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7722 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vināyaka Caturthī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 3 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vinayaka-chaturthi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The sukla caturthi in each month is called Ganesa caturthi or Vinayaka caturthi. It is observed at madhyahna. The chief among them are caturthis of Bhadrapada and Magha. Similarly the krsna caturthi in each month is called Sankasta caturthi, to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at moonrise. 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Saptamī runs from 21:20 on Sun 5 Oct to 23:52 on Mon 6 Oct and covers all of the first muhūrta after sunrise that morning.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/durga-saptami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahashtami", "festival": "mahashtami", "name": "Mahāṣṭamī", "everyday": "Durga Ashtami", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-10-07", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 34462, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 7, "key": "ashtami", "name": "Aṣṭamī", "start": { "local": "2008-10-06T23:52:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-06T19:52:03Z", "ms": 1223322723305.871 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-08T02:11:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T22:11:21Z", "ms": 1223417481089.3052 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-10-06T23:52:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-06T19:52:03Z", "ms": 1223322723305.871 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-08T02:11:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T22:11:21Z", "ms": 1223417481089.3052 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-10-07", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-07T11:46:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T07:46:00Z", "ms": 1223365559936.5713 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-07T12:34:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T08:34:00Z", "ms": 1223368439936.5713 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-10-08", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-08T11:45:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-08T07:45:43Z", "ms": 1223451943082.5283 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-08T12:33:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-08T08:33:43Z", "ms": 1223454823082.5283 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Aṣṭamī runs from 23:52 on Mon 6 Oct to 02:11 on Wed 8 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-06T19:52:03Z → 2008-10-07T22:11:21Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:46–12:34 on the 7th, 11:46–12:34 on the 8th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Aṣṭamī must be present during madhyāhna. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 34462 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Mahāṣṭamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 7 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "mahashtami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 8 Mahastami (paraviddha)" } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-07", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-07", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Mahāṣṭamī (Durga Ashtami) 2008 falls on Tuesday 7 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 23:52 on Mon 6 Oct to 02:11 on Wed 8 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahashtami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/mahanavami", "festival": "mahanavami", "name": "Mahānavamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-10-08", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 27710, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 8, "key": "navami", "name": "Navamī", "start": { "local": "2008-10-08T02:11:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T22:11:21Z", "ms": 1223417481089.3052 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-09T04:03:36+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-09T00:03:36Z", "ms": 1223510616378.1208 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-10-08T02:11:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-07T22:11:21Z", "ms": 1223417481089.3052 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-09T04:03:36+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-09T00:03:36Z", "ms": 1223510616378.1208 } }, "kaala": "madhyahna", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-10-08", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-08T11:45:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-08T07:45:43Z", "ms": 1223451943082.5283 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-08T12:33:43+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-08T08:33:43Z", "ms": 1223454823082.5283 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-10-09", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-09T11:45:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-09T07:45:27Z", "ms": 1223538326650.917 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-09T12:33:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-09T08:33:27Z", "ms": 1223541206650.917 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Navamī runs from 02:11 on Wed 8 Oct to 04:04 on Thu 9 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-07T22:11:21Z → 2008-10-09T00:03:36Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:46–12:34 on the 8th, 11:45–12:33 on the 9th.", "fact": "madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Navamī must be present during madhyāhna. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 27710 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Mahānavamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 8 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "mahanavami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 9 Mahanavami (purvaviddha) (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha covering one muhurta from sunrise)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.", "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "purvaviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-08", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-08", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Mahānavamī 2008 falls on Wednesday 8 October. 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They are together from 04:04 on Thu 9 Oct to 05:17 on Fri 10 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-09T00:03:36Z → 2008-10-10T01:17:07Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:18–18:01 on the 9th, 06:18–18:00 on the 10th.", "fact": "daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 703 of 703 minutes on the 9th and 0 of 702 on the 10th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 3670 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Vijayā Daśamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Thursday 9 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "vijaya-dashami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara." } ], "not_evaluated": "The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.", "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "second-day", "conjunction": { "nakshatra": "Śravaṇa", "kaala": "daytime" } }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-09", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-09", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 2008 falls on Thursday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 04:04 on Thu 9 Oct to 05:17 on Fri 10 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 703 minutes.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/vijaya-dashami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-10-10", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Pāśāṅkuśā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-10-10", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 2056, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 10, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-10-10T05:17:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-10T01:17:07Z", "ms": 1223601426655.705 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-11T05:44:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-11T01:44:27Z", "ms": 1223689466626.0964 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 6, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Āśvina" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-10-10T05:17:07+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-10T01:17:07Z", "ms": 1223601426655.705 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-11T05:44:27+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-11T01:44:27Z", "ms": 1223689466626.0964 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-10-10", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-10T06:18:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-10T02:18:16Z", "ms": 1223605096209.478 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-10T06:18:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-10T02:18:16Z", "ms": 1223605096209.478 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-10-11", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-11T06:18:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-11T02:18:42Z", "ms": 1223691522184.471 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-11T06:18:42+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-11T02:18:42Z", "ms": 1223691522184.471 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 05:17 on Fri 10 Oct to 05:44 on Sat 11 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-10T01:17:07Z → 2008-10-11T01:44:27Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:18 on the 10th and 06:19 on the 11th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. It is on the 10th and is not on the 11th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 2056 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Pāśāṅkuśā Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Friday 10 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-10", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-10", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Pāśāṅkuśā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Friday 10 October. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 31068 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 12 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-12", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-12", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Sunday 12 October. 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Caturthī runs from 15:09 on Fri 17 Oct to 12:09 on Sat 18 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-10-17", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ahoyi-ashtami", "festival": "ahoyi-ashtami", "name": "Ahoyī Aṣṭamī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-10-21", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 10956, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 22, "key": "ashtami", "name": "Aṣṭamī", "start": { "local": "2008-10-21T04:47:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T00:47:29Z", "ms": 1224550049430.4873 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-22T03:08:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T23:08:26Z", "ms": 1224630506479.2405 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 7, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Kārtika" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-10-21T04:47:29+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T00:47:29Z", "ms": 1224550049430.4873 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-22T03:08:26+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T23:08:26Z", "ms": 1224630506479.2405 } }, "kaala": "moonrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-10-20", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-20T23:00:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-20T19:00:38Z", "ms": 1224529238409.563 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-20T23:00:38+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-20T19:00:38Z", "ms": 1224529238409.563 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-10-21", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-22T00:05:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T20:05:51Z", "ms": 1224619550711.9958 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-22T00:05:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-21T20:05:51Z", "ms": 1224619550711.9958 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Aṣṭamī runs from 04:47 on Tue 21 Oct to 03:08 on Wed 22 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-21T00:47:29Z → 2008-10-21T23:08:26Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Moonrise is at 23:01 on the 20th and 00:06 on the 21st.", "fact": "moonrise: disc centre, 31′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Aṣṭamī must be current at moonrise. It is not on the 20th and is on the 21st.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one moonrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 10956 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Ahoyī Aṣṭamī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 21 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ahoyi-ashtami", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 8 Ahoyi astami (Gujerat) (current at moonrise), Karastami (Maharashtra). If occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day." } ], "kaala": "moonrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-21", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-21", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Ahoyī Aṣṭamī 2008 falls on Tuesday 21 October. Aṣṭamī runs from 04:47 on Tue 21 Oct to 03:08 on Wed 22 Oct and is current at moonrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ahoyi-ashtami", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-10-24", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Ramā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-10-24", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 18901, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-10-24T01:09:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-23T21:09:57Z", "ms": 1224796196956.2048 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-25T00:48:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-24T20:48:32Z", "ms": 1224881312251.8877 }, "month": { "amanta": 6, "purnimanta": 7, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Āśvina", "purnimanta_name": "Kārtika" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-10-24T01:09:57+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-23T21:09:57Z", "ms": 1224796196956.2048 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-25T00:48:32+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-24T20:48:32Z", "ms": 1224881312251.8877 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-10-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-24T06:24:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-24T02:24:58Z", "ms": 1224815097584.1863 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-24T06:24:58+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-24T02:24:58Z", "ms": 1224815097584.1863 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-10-25", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-10-25T06:25:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-25T02:25:30Z", "ms": 1224901529721.9585 }, "end": { "local": "2008-10-25T06:25:30+04:00", "utc": "2008-10-25T02:25:30Z", "ms": 1224901529721.9585 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 01:10 on Fri 24 Oct to 00:49 on Sat 25 Oct.", "fact": "2008-10-23T21:09:57Z → 2008-10-24T20:48:32Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:25 on the 24th and 06:25 on the 25th.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-24", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-24", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Ramā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Friday 24 October. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 19338 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Yama Dīpadāna, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 26 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "yama-dipadana", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "K 13 Yama dipadana (pradosa)." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-26", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-26", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Yama Dīpadāna 2008 falls on Sunday 26 October. 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It covers 0 of 101 minutes on the 25th and 101 of 101 on the 26th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 28034 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Bali Pūjā, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 29 October.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "bali-puja", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna)." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-29", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-10-29", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Bali Pūjā 2008 falls on Wednesday 29 October. 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It is on the 9th and is not on the 10th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 31902 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Prabodhinī Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Sunday 9 November.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-09", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-09", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Prabodhinī Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 9 November. Ekādaśī runs from 21:43 on Sat 8 Nov to 20:51 on Sun 9 Nov and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-11-09", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-11-10", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-11-10", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 771, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 12, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-11-10T19:08:17+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-10T15:08:17Z", "ms": 1226329697444.7744 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-11T16:42:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-11T12:42:11Z", "ms": 1226407330763.6873 }, "month": { "amanta": 7, "purnimanta": 7, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Kārtika", "purnimanta_name": "Kārtika" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-11-10T19:08:17+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-10T15:08:17Z", "ms": 1226329697444.7744 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-11T16:42:11+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-11T12:42:11Z", "ms": 1226407330763.6873 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-11-10", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-10T17:37:21+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-10T13:37:21Z", "ms": 1226324241369.2268 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-10T19:21:09+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-10T15:21:09Z", "ms": 1226330468612.8389 } }, "covered_min": 13, "window_min": 104, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-11-11", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-11T17:36:55+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-11T13:36:55Z", "ms": 1226410615200.1284 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-11T19:20:51+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-11T15:20:51Z", "ms": 1226416851243.689 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 104, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 19:08 on Mon 10 Nov to 16:42 on Tue 11 Nov.", "fact": "2008-11-10T15:08:17Z → 2008-11-11T12:42:11Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:37–19:21 on the 10th, 17:37–19:21 on the 11th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 13 of 104 minutes on the 10th and 0 of 104 on the 11th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 771 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 10 November.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-10", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-10", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śukla Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Monday 10 November. 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Caturthī runs from 23:34 on Sat 15 Nov to 20:25 on Sun 16 Nov, and is current at moonrise on neither day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/sankashta-chaturthi?on=2008-11-15", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-11-23", "festival": "ekadashi", "name": "Utpannā Ekādaśī", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-11-23", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 23162, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 25, "key": "ekadashi", "name": "Ekādaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-11-22T13:09:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-22T09:09:22Z", "ms": 1227344961764.406 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-23T13:56:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-23T09:56:49Z", "ms": 1227434209200.3254 }, "month": { "amanta": 7, "purnimanta": 8, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Kārtika", "purnimanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-11-22T13:09:22+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-22T09:09:22Z", "ms": 1227344961764.406 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-23T13:56:49+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-23T09:56:49Z", "ms": 1227434209200.3254 } }, "kaala": "sunrise", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-11-22", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-22T06:43:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-22T02:43:20Z", "ms": 1227321799509.5498 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-22T06:43:20+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-22T02:43:20Z", "ms": 1227321799509.5498 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": false }, { "local_date": "2008-11-23", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-23T06:44:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-23T02:44:02Z", "ms": 1227408242015.1487 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-23T06:44:02+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-23T02:44:02Z", "ms": 1227408242015.1487 } }, "covered_min": 1, "window_min": 0, "qualifies": true } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Ekādaśī runs from 13:09 on Sat 22 Nov to 13:57 on Sun 23 Nov.", "fact": "2008-11-22T09:09:22Z → 2008-11-23T09:56:49Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Sunrise is at 06:43 on the 22nd and 06:44 on the 23rd.", "fact": "sunrise: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Ekādaśī must be current at sunrise. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-23", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-23", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Utpannā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Sunday 23 November. Ekādaśī runs from 13:09 on Sat 22 Nov to 13:57 on Sun 23 Nov and is current at sunrise that day.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/ekadashi?on=2008-11-23", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-11-24", "festival": "pradosha-vrata", "name": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-11-24", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 2822, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 27, "key": "trayodashi", "name": "Trayodaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-11-24T15:10:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-24T11:10:18Z", "ms": 1227525018412.8335 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-25T16:46:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T12:46:16Z", "ms": 1227617175863.805 }, "month": { "amanta": 7, "purnimanta": 8, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Kārtika", "purnimanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-11-24T15:10:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-24T11:10:18Z", "ms": 1227525018412.8335 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-25T16:46:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T12:46:16Z", "ms": 1227617175863.805 } }, "kaala": "pradosha", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-11-24", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-24T17:33:24+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-24T13:33:24Z", "ms": 1227533603647.5234 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-24T19:19:00+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-24T15:19:00Z", "ms": 1227539940129.272 } }, "covered_min": 106, "window_min": 106, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-11-25", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-25T17:33:18+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T13:33:18Z", "ms": 1227619997711.0142 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-25T19:19:01+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T15:19:01Z", "ms": 1227626340673.7336 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 106, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Trayodaśī runs from 15:10 on Mon 24 Nov to 16:46 on Tue 25 Nov.", "fact": "2008-11-24T11:10:18Z → 2008-11-25T12:46:16Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:33–19:19 on the 24th, 17:33–19:19 on the 25th.", "fact": "pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Trayodaśī must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 106 of 106 minutes on the 24th and 0 of 106 on the 25th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2822 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 24 November.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-24", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-24", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Monday 24 November. Trayodaśī runs from 15:10 on Mon 24 Nov to 16:46 on Tue 25 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.", "cite": "https://ahargana.org/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/pradosha-vrata?on=2008-11-24", "method": "pac-rp@2026.1", "engine": { "version": "0.1.0", "ruleset": "2026.3-draft", "kernel": "de440-1900-2100", "kernel_sha256": "7eef444f9e5bd8786b8b5b72e775ecc376991b953a6246ec7a49d2c37434ea74", "tzdata": "2026f" } }, { "id": "/abu-dhabi/festivals/2008/shivaratri?on=2008-11-25", "festival": "shivaratri", "name": "Śivarātri", "tradition": "smarta", "place": "292968", "year": 2008, "local_date": "2008-11-25", "confidence": "determinate", "boundary_reasons": [], "boundary_margin_s": 18253, "anga": { "type": "tithi", "index": 28, "key": "chaturdashi", "name": "Caturdaśī", "start": { "local": "2008-11-25T16:46:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T12:46:16Z", "ms": 1227617175863.805 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-26T18:41:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-26T14:41:50Z", "ms": 1227710510234.232 }, "month": { "amanta": 7, "purnimanta": 8, "adhika": false, "amanta_name": "Kārtika", "purnimanta_name": "Mārgaśīrṣa" } }, "span": { "of": "tithi", "start": { "local": "2008-11-25T16:46:16+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T12:46:16Z", "ms": 1227617175863.805 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-26T18:41:50+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-26T14:41:50Z", "ms": 1227710510234.232 } }, "kaala": "nishita", "days": [ { "local_date": "2008-11-25", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-25T23:45:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T19:45:44Z", "ms": 1227642343821.2126 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-26T00:33:44+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-25T20:33:44Z", "ms": 1227645223821.2126 } }, "covered_min": 48, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": true }, { "local_date": "2008-11-26", "window": { "start": { "local": "2008-11-26T23:46:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-26T19:46:03Z", "ms": 1227728762931.005 }, "end": { "local": "2008-11-27T00:34:03+04:00", "utc": "2008-11-26T20:34:03Z", "ms": 1227731642931.005 } }, "covered_min": 0, "window_min": 48, "qualifies": false } ], "decided_by": "only-day", "explanation": [ { "step": "anga", "text": "Caturdaśī runs from 16:46 on Tue 25 Nov to 18:42 on Wed 26 Nov.", "fact": "2008-11-25T12:46:16Z → 2008-11-26T14:41:50Z" }, { "step": "kaala", "text": "Niśītha is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midnight: 23:46–00:34 on the 25th, 23:46–00:34 on the 26th.", "fact": "nishita: midnight-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′" }, { "step": "rule", "text": "Caturdaśī must be present during niśītha. 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The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-25", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-11-25", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Tuesday 25 November. 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When does not occur on any day, it is to be observed on the day of the tithi, but widows and sannyasins would observe on the next-day." } ], "not_evaluated": "The next-day observance for widows and sannyāsins, the Bengal avoidance of an ekādaśī joined to daśamī, and the Vaiṣṇava aruṇodaya rule belong to other traditions and are not applied.", "kaala": "sunrise", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "tithi-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-09", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-09", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Mokṣadā Ekādaśī 2008 falls on Tuesday 9 December. 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No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 6272 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Akhaṇḍa Dvādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Tuesday 9 December.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "akhanda-dvadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 104", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "S 12 Matsya dvadasi, Akhanda dvadasi (paraviddha), Vyanjana dvadasi & Dana dvadasi (Orissa)." } ], "kaala": "madhyahna", "priority": "paraviddha", "when_absent": "second-day" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-09", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-09", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Akhaṇḍa Dvādaśī 2008 falls on Tuesday 9 December. 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It is on the 22nd and is not on the 23rd.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one sunrise qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: paraviddha → only-day · margin 2077 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Saphalā Ekādaśī, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Monday 22 December.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "ekadashi", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 105", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "The general rule prevalent in most part of India is that it is to be observed on the day when the tithi is current at sunrise. If it occurs on two successive days, it is to be observed on the second day. 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It covers 107 of 107 minutes on the 24th and 0 of 107 on the 25th.", "fact": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 108" }, { "step": "tie_break", "text": "Only one evening qualifies. No tie-break is needed.", "fact": "priority: unstated → only-day · margin 23661 s" }, { "step": "ruling", "text": "Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata, Abu Dhabi, 2008: Wednesday 24 December.", "fact": "confidence: determinate" } ], "rule": { "kind": "lunar", "id": "pradosha-vrata", "references": [ { "text": "Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals", "locator": "p. 108", "url": "https://archive.org/details/calendar_reform_comittee_report", "quote": "Pradosa-vrata — The sukla and krsna trayodasi tithis of each month when cover the period of 'pradosa', are observed as Pradosa-vratas." } ], "kaala": "pradosha", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-24", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-24", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Kṛṣṇa Pradoṣa Vrata 2008 falls on Wednesday 24 December. 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The tithi must cover nisitha (or pradosa in some opinion)." } ], "not_evaluated": "The alternative opinion that reads pradoṣa instead of niśītha is not evaluated.", "kaala": "nishita", "priority": "unstated", "when_absent": "unstated" }, "alternatives": [ { "kind": "profile", "profile": "classical@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-25", "confidence": "determinate" }, { "kind": "profile", "profile": "compat-drikpanchang@2026.1", "local_date": "2008-12-25", "confidence": "determinate" } ], "quote": "In Abu Dhabi, Śivarātri 2008 falls on Thursday 25 December. 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