Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1953

Saturday 7 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 416 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 6 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:13 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:02
16:4917:1317:3718:0118:2518:4919:13

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 7 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4817:1217:3618:0018:2418:4819:12

109 of 109 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 01:58 on Sat 7 Nov to 03:30 on Sun 8 Nov.

    1953-11-06T17:57:42Z → 1953-11-07T19:29:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:13–19:02 on the 6th, 17:12–19:01 on the 7th.

    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 109 minutes on the 6th and 109 of 109 on the 7th.

    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 24943 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1953: Saturday 7 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1953 falls on Saturday 7 November. Pratipadā runs from 01:58 on Sat 7 Nov to 03:30 on Sun 8 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1953/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 7 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 7 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 7 Nov
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 6thCoveredSunset 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:58 → 11:3016:56107 min16:550 min6 Nov
Chicago11:58 → 13:3016:39111 min16:380 min6 Nov
Jersey City12:58 → 14:3016:47110 min16:460 min6 Nov
Port of Spain13:58 → 15:3017:4198 min17:400 min6 Nov
London17:58 → 19:3016:2525 min16:23118 min7 Nov
Durban19:58 → 21:3018:210 min18:2285 min7 Nov
Dubai21:58 → 23:3017:350 min17:35103 min7 Nov
Delhi23:28 → 01:0017:320 min17:32105 min7 Nov
Kolkata23:28 → 01:0016:560 min16:56103 min7 Nov
Singapore01:28 → 03:0018:200 min18:2096 min7 Nov
Sydney03:58 → 05:3018:270 min18:2883 min7 Nov
Suva05:58 → 07:3018:150 min18:1589 min7 Nov
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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