Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1906

Thursday 18 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 534 minutes.

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46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two evenings

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

Evening of Wednesday 17 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:52 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:37
16:2816:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:52

0 of 105 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 18 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:50 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:36
16:2616:5017:1417:3818:0218:2618:50

106 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 06:43 on Thu 18 Oct to 03:30 on Fri 19 Oct.

    1906-10-17T22:42:34Z → 1906-10-18T19:30:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:52–18:37 on the 17th, 16:50–18:36 on the 18th.

    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 105 minutes on the 17th and 106 of 106 on the 18th.

    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 32069 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 1906: Thursday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 1906 falls on Thursday 18 October. Pratipadā runs from 06:43 on Thu 18 Oct to 03:30 on Fri 19 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1906/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 18 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 17thCoveredSunset 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:43 → 11:3017:17102 min17:160 min17 Oct
Chicago16:43 → 13:3017:07104 min17:050 min17 Oct
Jersey City17:43 → 14:3017:1475 min17:130 min17 Oct
Port of Spain18:43 → 15:3017:4842 min17:470 min17 Oct
London22:43 → 19:3017:050 min17:03108 min18 Oct
Durban00:43 → 21:3018:060 min18:0789 min18 Oct
Dubai02:24 → 23:1117:320 min17:31100 min18 Oct
Delhi04:13 → 01:0017:500 min17:49101 min18 Oct
Kolkata04:13 → 01:0017:100 min17:1099 min18 Oct
Singapore05:43 → 02:3017:530 min17:5295 min18 Oct
Sydney08:43 → 05:3018:090 min18:1088 min18 Oct
Suva10:38 → 07:2518:020 min18:0292 min18 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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