Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1960

Friday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 45 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 Thursday 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

Evening of Friday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
Pratipadā ends 18:23:15
17:0817:3217:5618:2018:4419:0819:32

52 of 104 minutes covered, the first 52

Pratipadā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 20:02 on Thu 20 Oct to 18:23 on Fri 21 Oct.

    1960-10-20T12:02:16Z → 1960-10-21T10:23:16Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:33–19:17 on the 20th, 17:32–19:16 on the 21st.

    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 104 minutes on the 20th and 52 of 104 on the 21st.

    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 2710 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1960: Friday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1960 falls on Friday 21 October. Pratipadā runs from 20:02 on Thu 20 Oct to 18:23 on Fri 21 Oct and covers 52 of 104 minutes of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 21 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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:02 → 02:2317:12103 min17:110 min20 Oct
Chicago07:02 → 05:2318:01105 min18:000 min20 Oct
Jersey City08:02 → 06:2318:08105 min18:070 min20 Oct
Port of Spain08:02 → 06:2317:4697 min17:460 min20 Oct
London12:02 → 10:2316:57109 min16:540 min20 Oct
Durban14:02 → 12:2318:0988 min18:090 min20 Oct
Dubai16:02 → 14:2317:47100 min17:460 min20 Oct
Delhi17:32 → 15:5317:46101 min17:450 min20 Oct
Kolkata17:32 → 15:5317:0775 min17:060 min20 Oct
Singapore19:32 → 17:5318:2225 min18:210 min20 Oct
Sydney22:02 → 20:2318:120 min18:1387 min21 Oct
Suva00:02 → 22:2318:080 min18:0991 min21 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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