Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1952

Sunday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 635 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Sunday 19 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

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

104 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 20 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

0 of 104 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 06:42 on Sun 19 Oct to 06:58 on Mon 20 Oct.

    1952-10-18T22:42:15Z → 1952-10-19T22:58:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

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

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 104 of 104 minutes on the 19th and 0 of 104 on the 20th.

    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 38083 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1952: Sunday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1952 falls on Sunday 19 October. Pratipadā runs from 06:42 on Sun 19 Oct to 06:58 on Mon 20 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1952/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 19 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 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:42 → 14:5817:15102 min17:140 min18 Oct
Chicago16:42 → 16:5817:04104 min17:030 min18 Oct
Jersey City17:42 → 17:5817:1173 min17:1049 min18 Oct
Port of Spain18:42 → 18:5817:4742 min17:4672 min19 Oct
London23:42 → 23:5818:010 min17:59109 min19 Oct
Durban00:42 → 00:5818:070 min18:0889 min19 Oct
Dubai02:42 → 02:5817:490 min17:48100 min19 Oct
Delhi04:12 → 04:2817:480 min17:47101 min19 Oct
Kolkata04:12 → 04:2817:090 min17:08100 min19 Oct
Singapore06:12 → 06:2818:220 min18:2295 min19 Oct
Sydney08:42 → 08:5818:100 min18:1188 min19 Oct
Suva10:42 → 10:5818:080 min18:0892 min19 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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