Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1955

Tuesday 15 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 64 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 Monday 14 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:57
16:4217:0617:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:30

0 of 111 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 15 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:05 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:57
16:4117:0517:2917:5318:1718:4119:0519:29

111 of 111 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 20:01 on Mon 14 Nov to 22:11 on Tue 15 Nov.

    1955-11-14T12:01:30Z → 1955-11-15T14:10:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:06–18:57 on the 14th, 17:05–18:57 on the 15th.

    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 111 minutes on the 14th and 111 of 111 on the 15th.

    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 3865 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1955: Tuesday 15 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1955 falls on Tuesday 15 November. Pratipadā runs from 20:01 on Mon 14 Nov to 22:11 on Tue 15 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1955/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 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 14thCoveredSunset 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:01 → 06:1116:50109 min16:490 min14 Nov
Chicago06:01 → 08:1116:31113 min16:300 min14 Nov
Jersey City07:01 → 09:1116:39112 min16:390 min14 Nov
Port of Spain08:01 → 10:1117:4099 min17:400 min14 Nov
London12:01 → 14:1116:13121 min16:120 min14 Nov
Durban14:01 → 16:1118:2883 min18:280 min14 Nov
Dubai16:01 → 18:1117:32104 min17:3139 min14 Nov
Delhi17:31 → 19:4117:28103 min17:28106 min15 Nov
Kolkata17:31 → 19:4116:5365 min16:53104 min15 Nov
Singapore19:31 → 21:4118:2125 min18:2196 min15 Nov
Sydney22:01 → 00:1118:340 min18:3581 min15 Nov
Suva00:01 → 02:1118:190 min18:1988 min15 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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