Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1990

Friday 19 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 257 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 18 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:36 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:20
17:1217:3618:0018:2418:4819:1219:36

0 of 103 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 19 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:18
17:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:1119:35

104 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 23:37 on Thu 18 Oct to 01:18 on Sat 20 Oct.

    1990-10-18T15:36:41Z → 1990-10-19T17:17:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:36–19:20 on the 18th, 17:35–19:18 on the 19th.

    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 103 minutes on the 18th and 104 of 104 on the 19th.

    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 15430 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 1990: Friday 19 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 1990 falls on Friday 19 October. Pratipadā runs from 23:37 on Thu 18 Oct to 01:18 on Sat 20 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1990/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 19 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 19 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 19 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 18thCoveredSunset 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:37 → 10:1818:15102 min18:140 min18 Oct
Chicago10:37 → 12:1818:04104 min18:030 min18 Oct
Jersey City11:37 → 13:1818:12104 min18:100 min18 Oct
Port of Spain11:37 → 13:1817:4797 min17:470 min18 Oct
London16:37 → 18:1818:01108 min17:5918 min18 Oct
Durban17:37 → 19:1818:0789 min18:0870 min18 Oct
Dubai19:37 → 21:1817:490 min17:48100 min19 Oct
Delhi21:07 → 22:4817:490 min17:48101 min19 Oct
Kolkata21:07 → 22:4817:090 min17:08100 min19 Oct
Singapore23:37 → 01:1818:520 min18:5295 min19 Oct
Sydney01:37 → 03:1818:100 min18:1188 min19 Oct
Suva03:37 → 05:1818:080 min18:0892 min19 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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