Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2018

Thursday 8 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 278 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 Wednesday 7 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:12 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:01
16:4817:1217:3618:0018:2418:4819:12

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 8 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:11 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
16:4717:1117:3517:5918:2318:4719:11

110 of 110 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 00:02 on Thu 8 Nov to 23:38 on Thu 8 Nov.

    2018-11-07T16:02:02Z → 2018-11-08T15:37:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:12–19:01 on the 7th, 17:11–19:00 on the 8th.

    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 109 minutes on the 7th and 110 of 110 on the 8th.

    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 16653 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 2018: Thursday 8 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 2018 falls on Thursday 8 November. Pratipadā runs from 00:02 on Thu 8 Nov to 23:38 on Thu 8 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2018/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 8 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 8 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 8 Nov
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 7thCoveredSunset 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:02 → 07:3816:55107 min16:540 min7 Nov
Chicago10:02 → 09:3816:37111 min16:360 min7 Nov
Jersey City11:02 → 10:3816:45111 min16:440 min7 Nov
Port of Spain12:02 → 11:3817:4099 min17:400 min7 Nov
London16:02 → 15:3816:23118 min16:210 min7 Nov
Durban18:02 → 17:3818:2285 min18:230 min7 Nov
Dubai20:02 → 19:3817:340 min17:34104 min8 Nov
Delhi21:32 → 21:0817:320 min17:31105 min8 Nov
Kolkata21:32 → 21:0816:560 min16:55103 min8 Nov
Singapore00:02 → 23:3818:500 min18:5096 min8 Nov
Sydney03:02 → 02:3819:280 min19:2983 min8 Nov
Suva05:02 → 04:3819:150 min19:1689 min8 Nov
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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