Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1979

Sunday 21 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 356 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 Sunday 21 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:33 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:17
17:0917:3317:5718:2118:4519:0919:33

104 of 104 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 22 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:31 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:16
17:0717:3117:5518:1918:4319:0719:31

0 of 104 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 10:23 on Sun 21 Oct to 11:35 on Mon 22 Oct.

    1979-10-21T02:23:02Z → 1979-10-22T03:34:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:33–19:17 on the 21st, 17:31–19:16 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 104 of 104 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 104 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 21376 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1979: Sunday 21 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1979 falls on Sunday 21 October. Pratipadā runs from 10:23 on Sun 21 Oct to 11:35 on Mon 22 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 21 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 21 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 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 21stCoveredSunset 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:23 → 20:3518:12103 min18:110 min21 Oct
Chicago21:23 → 22:3518:00105 min17:590 min21 Oct
Jersey City22:23 → 23:3518:08105 min18:060 min21 Oct
Port of Spain22:23 → 23:3517:4697 min17:450 min21 Oct
London03:23 → 04:3517:56109 min17:540 min21 Oct
Durban04:23 → 05:3518:0988 min18:100 min21 Oct
Dubai06:23 → 07:3517:47100 min17:460 min21 Oct
Delhi07:53 → 09:0517:46101 min17:450 min21 Oct
Kolkata07:53 → 09:0517:07100 min17:060 min21 Oct
Singapore09:53 → 11:0518:2295 min18:210 min21 Oct
Sydney12:23 → 13:3518:1287 min18:130 min21 Oct
Suva14:23 → 15:3518:0891 min18:090 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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