Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1922

Saturday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 40 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 Friday 20 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:34 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
17:1017:3417:5818:2218:4619:1019:34

0 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
Pratipadā ends 18:12:54
17:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

40 of 104 minutes covered, the first 40

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 21:40 on Fri 20 Oct to 18:13 on Sat 21 Oct.

    1922-10-20T13:39:54Z → 1922-10-21T10:12:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:34–19:18 on the 20th, 17:33–19:17 on the 21st.

    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 104 minutes on the 20th and 40 of 104 on the 21st.

    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 2408 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1922: Saturday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1922 falls on Saturday 21 October. Pratipadā runs from 21:40 on Fri 20 Oct to 18:13 on Sat 21 Oct and covers 40 of 104 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1922/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 21 Oct
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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles05:40 → 02:1317:13103 min17:120 min20 Oct
Chicago07:40 → 04:1317:02105 min17:010 min20 Oct
Jersey City08:40 → 05:1317:09105 min17:080 min20 Oct
Port of Spain09:40 → 06:1317:4697 min17:460 min20 Oct
London13:40 → 10:1316:58109 min16:560 min20 Oct
Durban15:40 → 12:1318:0889 min18:090 min20 Oct
Dubai17:40 → 14:1317:48100 min17:470 min20 Oct
Delhi19:10 → 15:4317:4718 min17:460 min20 Oct
Kolkata19:10 → 15:4317:080 min17:070 min20 Oct
Singapore20:40 → 17:1317:520 min17:520 min20 Oct
Sydney23:40 → 20:1318:110 min18:1287 min21 Oct
Suva01:40 → 22:1318:080 min18:0891 min21 Oct
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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