Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1940

Thursday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 446 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 Wednesday 30 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:20 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:08
16:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

0 of 107 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 31 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:19 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:07
16:5517:1917:4318:0718:3118:5519:19

107 of 107 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 06:03 on Thu 31 Oct to 02:32 on Fri 1 Nov.

    1940-10-30T22:02:57Z → 1940-10-31T18:32:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:20–19:08 on the 30th, 17:19–19:07 on the 31st.

    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 107 minutes on the 30th and 107 of 107 on the 31st.

    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 26743 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1940: Thursday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1940 falls on Thursday 31 October. Pratipadā runs from 06:03 on Thu 31 Oct to 02:32 on Fri 1 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1940/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 31 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 30thCoveredSunset 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:03 → 10:3217:02105 min17:010 min30 Oct
Chicago16:03 → 12:3216:47109 min16:460 min30 Oct
Jersey City17:03 → 13:3216:55100 min16:540 min30 Oct
Port of Spain18:03 → 14:3217:4277 min17:420 min30 Oct
London23:03 → 19:3217:370 min17:35115 min31 Oct
Durban00:03 → 20:3218:160 min18:1786 min31 Oct
Dubai02:03 → 22:3217:400 min17:39102 min31 Oct
Delhi03:33 → 00:0217:380 min17:37104 min31 Oct
Kolkata03:33 → 00:0217:000 min17:00102 min31 Oct
Singapore05:23 → 01:5218:100 min18:1095 min31 Oct
Sydney08:03 → 04:3218:210 min18:2285 min31 Oct
Suva10:03 → 06:3218:120 min18:1290 min31 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

About Ahargaṇa