Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1941

Tuesday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 33 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 20 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:34 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:18
18:1018:3418:5819:2219:4620:1020:34

0 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

18:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:16
Pratipadā ends 19:43:34
18:0818:3218:5619:2019:4420:0820:32

71 of 104 minutes covered, the first 71

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 23:20 on Mon 20 Oct to 19:44 on Tue 21 Oct.

    1941-10-20T14:19:43Z → 1941-10-21T10:43:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:34–20:18 on the 20th, 18:32–20:16 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 71 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 1974 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1941: Tuesday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1941 falls on Tuesday 21 October. Pratipadā runs from 23:20 on Mon 20 Oct to 19:44 on Tue 21 Oct and covers 71 of 104 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1941/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 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 Angeles06:20 → 02:4417:13103 min17:120 min20 Oct
Chicago08:20 → 04:4417:02105 min17:000 min20 Oct
Jersey City09:20 → 05:4417:09105 min17:070 min20 Oct
Port of Spain10:20 → 06:4417:4697 min17:460 min20 Oct
London15:20 → 11:4417:57109 min17:550 min20 Oct
Durban16:20 → 12:4418:0989 min18:090 min20 Oct
Dubai18:20 → 14:4417:4868 min17:470 min20 Oct
Delhi20:50 → 17:1418:470 min18:460 min20 Oct
Kolkata20:50 → 17:1418:080 min18:070 min20 Oct
Singapore21:50 → 18:1418:220 min18:220 min20 Oct
Sydney00:20 → 20:4418:120 min18:1387 min21 Oct
Suva02:20 → 22:4418:080 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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