Tuesday 23 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 15:11 on Tue 23 Oct to 17:26 on Wed 24 Oct.

   1900-10-23T13:27:12Z → 1900-10-24T15:41:47Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:03–18:50 on the 23rd, 17:01–18:49 on the 24th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 107 of 107 minutes on the 23rd and 24 of 107 on the 24th.

   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 1465 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Bucharest, 1900: Tuesday 23 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Bali Pūjā 1900 falls on Tuesday 23 October. Pratipadā runs from 15:11 on Tue 23 Oct to 17:26 on Wed 24 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 24 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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