Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1968

Tuesday 22 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 443 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 Monday 21 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:32 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
17:0817:3217:5618:2018:4419:0819:32

0 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 22 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:30 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:15
17:0617:3017:5418:1818:4219:0619:30

105 of 105 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 05:44 on Tue 22 Oct to 02:38 on Wed 23 Oct.

    1968-10-21T21:44:13Z → 1968-10-22T18:37:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:32–19:16 on the 21st, 17:30–19:15 on the 22nd.

    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 21st and 105 of 105 on the 22nd.

    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 26555 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1968: Tuesday 22 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1968 falls on Tuesday 22 October. Pratipadā runs from 05:44 on Tue 22 Oct to 02:38 on Wed 23 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1968/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 22 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 22 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 22 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 21stCoveredSunset 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:44 → 11:3818:11103 min18:100 min21 Oct
Chicago16:44 → 13:3817:59106 min17:580 min21 Oct
Jersey City17:44 → 14:3818:07105 min18:050 min21 Oct
Port of Spain17:44 → 14:3817:4697 min17:450 min21 Oct
London22:44 → 19:3817:540 min17:52105 min22 Oct
Durban23:44 → 20:3818:100 min18:1088 min22 Oct
Dubai01:44 → 22:3817:460 min17:45101 min22 Oct
Delhi03:14 → 00:0817:450 min17:44102 min22 Oct
Kolkata03:14 → 00:0817:060 min17:06100 min22 Oct
Singapore05:14 → 02:0818:210 min18:2195 min22 Oct
Sydney07:44 → 04:3818:130 min18:1487 min22 Oct
Suva09:44 → 06:3818:090 min18:0991 min22 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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