Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1956

Saturday 3 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 320 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 2 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:17 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:05
16:5317:1717:4118:0518:2918:5319:17

0 of 108 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 3 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:16 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:04
16:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:5219:16

108 of 108 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 00:44 on Sat 3 Nov to 00:24 on Sun 4 Nov.

    1956-11-02T16:43:38Z → 1956-11-03T16:23:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:17–19:05 on the 2nd, 17:16–19:04 on the 3rd.

    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 108 minutes on the 2nd and 108 of 108 on the 3rd.

    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 19178 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1956: Saturday 3 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1956 falls on Saturday 3 November. Pratipadā runs from 00:44 on Sat 3 Nov to 00:24 on Sun 4 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1956/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 3 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 3 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 3 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 2ndCoveredSunset 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:44 → 08:2416:59106 min16:580 min2 Nov
Chicago10:44 → 10:2416:43110 min16:420 min2 Nov
Jersey City11:44 → 11:2416:51109 min16:500 min2 Nov
Port of Spain12:44 → 12:2417:4198 min17:410 min2 Nov
London16:44 → 16:2416:31103 min16:300 min2 Nov
Durban18:44 → 18:2418:1860 min18:195 min2 Nov
Dubai20:44 → 20:2417:370 min17:37103 min3 Nov
Delhi22:14 → 21:5417:350 min17:34104 min3 Nov
Kolkata22:14 → 21:5416:580 min16:58102 min3 Nov
Singapore00:14 → 23:5418:200 min18:2096 min3 Nov
Sydney02:44 → 02:2418:240 min18:2484 min3 Nov
Suva04:44 → 04:2418:130 min18:1490 min3 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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