Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1973

Friday 26 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 323 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 Friday 26 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

Evening of Saturday 27 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:24 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:10
17:0017:2417:4818:1218:3619:0019:24

0 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 11:17 on Fri 26 Oct to 12:01 on Sat 27 Oct.

    1973-10-26T03:16:30Z → 1973-10-27T04:00:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:25–19:11 on the 26th, 17:24–19:10 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 106 of 106 minutes on the 26th and 0 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 19405 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1973: Friday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1973 falls on Friday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 11:17 on Fri 26 Oct to 12:01 on Sat 27 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1973/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 26 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 Angeles20:17 → 21:0118:06104 min18:050 min26 Oct
Chicago22:17 → 23:0117:53107 min17:510 min26 Oct
Jersey City23:17 → 00:0118:00107 min17:590 min26 Oct
Port of Spain23:17 → 00:0117:4498 min17:430 min26 Oct
London04:17 → 05:0117:45112 min17:430 min26 Oct
Durban05:17 → 06:0118:1387 min18:140 min26 Oct
Dubai07:17 → 08:0117:42101 min17:420 min26 Oct
Delhi08:47 → 09:3117:41102 min17:400 min26 Oct
Kolkata08:47 → 09:3117:03101 min17:020 min26 Oct
Singapore10:47 → 11:3118:2195 min18:210 min26 Oct
Sydney13:17 → 14:0118:1786 min18:180 min26 Oct
Suva15:17 → 16:0118:1091 min18:110 min26 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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