Friday 19 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 17:37 on Thu 18 Oct to 19:18 on Fri 19 Oct.

   1990-10-18T15:36:41Z → 1990-10-19T17:17:35Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:27–19:12 on the 18th, 17:25–19:11 on the 19th.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 95 of 105 minutes on the 18th and 106 of 106 on the 19th.

   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 415 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Bucharest, 1990: Friday 19 October.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Bali Pūjā 1990 falls on Friday 19 October. Pratipadā runs from 17:37 on Thu 18 Oct to 19:18 on Fri 19 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the previous evening for 95 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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