Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1954

Wednesday 27 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 395 minutes.

Decide it for

BaodingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Tuesday 26 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:26 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:12
17:0217:2617:5018:1418:3819:0219:26

0 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 27 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:25 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:11
17:0117:2517:4918:1318:3719:0119:25

106 of 106 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 01:47 on Wed 27 Oct to 04:18 on Thu 28 Oct.

    1954-10-26T17:46:56Z → 1954-10-27T20:18:28Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:26–19:12 on the 26th, 17:25–19:11 on the 27th.

    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 106 minutes on the 26th and 106 of 106 on the 27th.

    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 23720 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1954: Wednesday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1954 falls on Wednesday 27 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:47 on Wed 27 Oct to 04:18 on Thu 28 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 27 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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:47 → 12:1817:06104 min17:050 min26 Oct
Chicago11:47 → 14:1816:53107 min16:520 min26 Oct
Jersey City12:47 → 15:1817:01107 min16:590 min26 Oct
Port of Spain13:47 → 16:1817:4498 min17:430 min26 Oct
London17:47 → 20:1816:4650 min16:44112 min27 Oct
Durban19:47 → 22:1818:130 min18:1387 min27 Oct
Dubai21:47 → 00:1817:430 min17:42102 min27 Oct
Delhi23:17 → 01:4817:410 min17:40103 min27 Oct
Kolkata23:17 → 01:4817:030 min17:03101 min27 Oct
Singapore01:17 → 03:4818:210 min18:2195 min27 Oct
Sydney03:47 → 06:1818:170 min18:1886 min27 Oct
Suva05:47 → 08:1818:100 min18:1091 min27 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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