Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1973

Friday 26 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 613 minutes.

Decide it for

44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two evenings

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset.

Evening of Thursday 25 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:15 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:03
16:5117:1517:3918:0318:2718:5119:15

0 of 108 minutes covered

Evening of Friday 26 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:14 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:02
16:5017:1417:3818:0218:2618:5019:14

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 05:17 on Fri 26 Oct to 06:01 on Sat 27 Oct.

    1973-10-26T03:16:30Z → 1973-10-27T04:00:39Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:15–19:03 on the 25th, 17:14–19:02 on the 26th.

    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 108 minutes on the 25th and 108 of 108 on the 26th.

    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 36796 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Bucharest, 1973: Friday 26 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Bali Pūjā 1973 falls on Friday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 05:17 on Fri 26 Oct to 06:01 on Sat 27 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1973/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 26 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:17 → 21:0118:06104 min18:050 min26 Oct
Chicago22:17 → 23:0117:53107 min17:510 min26 Oct
Jersey City23:17 → 00:0118:00107 min17:590 min26 Oct
Port of Spain23:17 → 00:0117:4498 min17:430 min26 Oct
London04:17 → 05:0117:45112 min17:430 min26 Oct
Durban05:17 → 06:0118:1387 min18:140 min26 Oct
Dubai07:17 → 08:0117:42101 min17:420 min26 Oct
Delhi08:47 → 09:3117:41102 min17:400 min26 Oct
Kolkata08:47 → 09:3117:03101 min17:020 min26 Oct
Singapore10:47 → 11:3118:2195 min18:210 min26 Oct
Sydney13:17 → 14:0118:1786 min18:180 min26 Oct
Suva15:17 → 16:0118:1091 min18:110 min26 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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