Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2078

Saturday 5 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 354 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 Friday 4 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:14 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:03
16:5017:1417:3818:0218:2618:5019:14

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 5 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:13 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:02
16:4917:1317:3718:0118:2518:4919:13

109 of 109 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 00:57 on Sat 5 Nov to 03:40 on Sun 6 Nov.

    2078-11-04T16:57:20Z → 2078-11-05T19:39:37Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:14–19:03 on the 4th, 17:13–19:02 on the 5th.

    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 4th and 109 of 109 on the 5th.

    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 21255 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Baoding, 2078: Saturday 5 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Bali Pūjā 2078 falls on Saturday 5 November. Pratipadā runs from 00:57 on Sat 5 Nov to 03:40 on Sun 6 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2078/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 5 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 5 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 5 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 4thCoveredSunset 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:57 → 12:4017:57107 min17:560 min4 Nov
Chicago11:57 → 14:4017:40110 min17:390 min4 Nov
Jersey City12:57 → 15:4017:48110 min17:470 min4 Nov
Port of Spain12:57 → 15:4017:4198 min17:410 min4 Nov
London16:57 → 19:4016:2787 min16:26117 min5 Nov
Durban18:57 → 21:4018:2048 min18:2185 min5 Nov
Dubai20:57 → 23:4017:360 min17:35103 min5 Nov
Delhi22:27 → 01:1017:330 min17:33105 min5 Nov
Kolkata22:27 → 01:1016:570 min16:57102 min5 Nov
Singapore00:57 → 03:4018:500 min18:5096 min5 Nov
Sydney03:57 → 06:4019:260 min19:2783 min5 Nov
Suva04:57 → 07:4018:140 min18:1589 min5 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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