Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2016

Monday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 391 minutes.

Decide it for

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 30 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:20 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:07
16:5617:2017:4418:0818:3218:5619:20

0 of 107 minutes covered

Evening of Monday 31 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:19 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:06
16:5517:1917:4318:0718:3118:5519:19

108 of 108 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 01:38 on Mon 31 Oct to 04:10 on Tue 1 Nov.

    2016-10-30T17:38:10Z → 2016-10-31T20:09:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:20–19:07 on the 30th, 17:19–19:06 on the 31st.

    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 107 minutes on the 30th and 108 of 108 on the 31st.

    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 23469 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 2016: Monday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 2016 falls on Monday 31 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:38 on Mon 31 Oct to 04:10 on Tue 1 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2016/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 31 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 30thCoveredSunset 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:38 → 13:1018:01106 min18:000 min30 Oct
Chicago12:38 → 15:1017:46109 min17:450 min30 Oct
Jersey City13:38 → 16:1017:54108 min17:530 min30 Oct
Port of Spain13:38 → 16:1017:4298 min17:420 min30 Oct
London17:38 → 20:1016:3652 min16:34115 min31 Oct
Durban19:38 → 22:1018:164 min18:1786 min31 Oct
Dubai21:38 → 00:1017:390 min17:38102 min31 Oct
Delhi23:08 → 01:4017:370 min17:36104 min31 Oct
Kolkata23:08 → 01:4017:000 min16:59102 min31 Oct
Singapore01:38 → 04:1018:500 min18:5095 min31 Oct
Sydney04:38 → 07:1019:210 min19:2284 min31 Oct
Suva05:38 → 08:1018:120 min18:1290 min31 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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