Tuesday 13 November

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 17:35 on Mon 12 Nov to 20:12 on Tue 13 Nov.

   1928-11-12T09:35:14Z → 1928-11-13T12:12:02Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:07–18:58 on the 12th, 17:06–18:57 on the 13th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 83 of 111 minutes on the 12th and 111 of 111 on the 13th.

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

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 1686 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1928: Tuesday 13 November.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1928 falls on Tuesday 13 November. Pratipadā runs from 17:35 on Mon 12 Nov to 20:12 on Tue 13 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 83 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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