Monday 13 November

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 17:27 on Mon 13 Nov to 17:07 on Tue 14 Nov.

   2023-11-13T09:27:24Z → 2023-11-14T09:06:52Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:06–18:57 on the 13th, 17:05–18:57 on the 14th.

   pradosha: night-muhurta-1-2 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 90 of 111 minutes on the 13th and 1 of 111 on the 14th.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 87 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 2023: Monday 13 November.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 2023 falls on Monday 13 November. Pratipadā runs from 17:27 on Mon 13 Nov to 17:07 on Tue 14 Nov and covers 90 of 111 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 1 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 1 min 27 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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