Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1904

Tuesday 8 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 122 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two evenings

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

Evening of Monday 7 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4817:1217:3618:0018:2418:4819:12

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 8 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4717:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:11

110 of 110 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 23:37 on Mon 7 Nov to 21:03 on Tue 8 Nov.

    1904-11-07T15:36:36Z → 1904-11-08T13:02:52Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:12–19:01 on the 7th, 17:11–19:01 on the 8th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 0 of 109 minutes on the 7th and 110 of 110 on the 8th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 7332 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1904: Tuesday 8 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1904 falls on Tuesday 8 November. Pratipadā runs from 23:37 on Mon 7 Nov to 21:03 on Tue 8 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1904/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 8 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 8 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 8 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

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

The rule, as data

/rules/bali-puja · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pratipadā
Kāla
Pradoṣa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 1 Govardhana puja, Annakuta [purvaviddha], Balidaityaraja puja (pradosa), Dyuta pratipad (purvahna).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePratipadāSunset 7thCoveredSunset 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:37 → 05:0316:55107 min16:540 min7 Nov
Chicago09:37 → 07:0316:38111 min16:370 min7 Nov
Jersey City10:37 → 08:0316:46111 min16:450 min7 Nov
Port of Spain11:37 → 09:0317:4099 min17:400 min7 Nov
London15:37 → 13:0316:24118 min16:220 min7 Nov
Durban17:37 → 15:0318:2285 min18:230 min7 Nov
Dubai19:18 → 16:4417:160 min17:150 min7 Nov
Delhi20:58 → 18:2417:230 min17:2262 min8 Nov
Kolkata20:58 → 18:2416:470 min16:4797 min8 Nov
Singapore22:32 → 19:5817:450 min17:4596 min8 Nov
Sydney01:37 → 23:0318:280 min18:2983 min8 Nov
Suva03:32 → 00:5818:100 min18:1189 min8 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
bali-puja@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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