Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1998

Tuesday 20 October

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 161 minutes.

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BucharestDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

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 Tuesday 20 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

18:23 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:09
17:5918:2318:4719:1119:3519:5920:23

106 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Wednesday 21 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

18:22 sunsetpradoṣa ends 20:08
17:5818:2218:4619:1019:3419:5820:22

0 of 106 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 13:09 on Tue 20 Oct to 15:41 on Wed 21 Oct.

    1998-10-20T10:09:23Z → 1998-10-21T12:41:01Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 18:23–20:09 on the 20th, 18:22–20:08 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pratipadā must be present during pradoṣa. It covers 106 of 106 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 106 on the 21st.

    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 9644 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Bucharest, 1998: Tuesday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Bali Pūjā 1998 falls on Tuesday 20 October. Pratipadā runs from 13:09 on Tue 20 Oct to 15:41 on Wed 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1998/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 20 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 20thCoveredSunset 21stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:09 → 05:4118:13103 min18:110 min20 Oct
Chicago05:09 → 07:4118:01105 min18:000 min20 Oct
Jersey City06:09 → 08:4118:09105 min18:070 min20 Oct
Port of Spain06:09 → 08:4117:4697 min17:460 min20 Oct
London11:09 → 13:4117:57109 min17:550 min20 Oct
Durban12:09 → 14:4118:0988 min18:090 min20 Oct
Dubai14:09 → 16:4117:47100 min17:470 min20 Oct
Delhi15:39 → 18:1117:47101 min17:4625 min20 Oct
Kolkata15:39 → 18:1117:07100 min17:0764 min20 Oct
Singapore18:09 → 20:4118:5295 min18:5195 min21 Oct
Sydney20:09 → 22:4118:120 min18:1387 min21 Oct
Suva22:09 → 00:4118:080 min18:0891 min21 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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