Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1987

Friday 23 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 334 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 Thursday 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 105 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 23 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 01:28 on Fri 23 Oct to 00:48 on Sat 24 Oct.

    1987-10-22T17:27:53Z → 1987-10-23T16:48:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:31–19:16 on the 22nd, 17:30–19:15 on the 23rd.

    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 105 minutes on the 22nd and 105 of 105 on the 23rd.

    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 20012 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1987: Friday 23 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1987 falls on Friday 23 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:28 on Fri 23 Oct to 00:48 on Sat 24 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1987/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 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 22ndCoveredSunset 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:28 → 09:4818:11103 min18:100 min22 Oct
Chicago12:28 → 11:4817:59106 min17:570 min22 Oct
Jersey City13:28 → 12:4818:06105 min18:050 min22 Oct
Port of Spain13:28 → 12:4817:4597 min17:450 min22 Oct
London18:28 → 17:4817:5476 min17:510 min22 Oct
Durban19:28 → 18:4818:1010 min18:1038 min23 Oct
Dubai21:28 → 20:4817:460 min17:45101 min23 Oct
Delhi22:58 → 22:1817:450 min17:44102 min23 Oct
Kolkata22:58 → 22:1817:060 min17:05100 min23 Oct
Singapore01:28 → 00:4818:510 min18:5195 min23 Oct
Sydney03:28 → 02:4818:130 min18:1487 min23 Oct
Suva05:28 → 04:4818:090 min18:0991 min23 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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