Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1946

Friday 25 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 446 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 Friday 25 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:37 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:26
16:1316:3717:0117:2517:4918:1318:37

109 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Saturday 26 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:36 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:25
16:1216:3617:0017:2417:4818:1218:36

0 of 109 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 07:32 on Fri 25 Oct to 09:09 on Sat 26 Oct.

    1946-10-24T23:31:48Z → 1946-10-26T01:09:24Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:37–18:26 on the 25th, 16:36–18:25 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 109 of 109 minutes on the 25th and 0 of 109 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 26775 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 1946: Friday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 1946 falls on Friday 25 October. Pratipadā runs from 07:32 on Fri 25 Oct to 09:09 on Sat 26 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1946/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 25 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 24thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:32 → 17:0917:09104 min17:060 min24 Oct
Chicago17:32 → 19:0916:5671 min16:530 min25 Oct
Jersey City18:32 → 20:0917:0318 min17:010 min25 Oct
Port of Spain19:32 → 21:0917:450 min17:440 min25 Oct
London23:32 → 01:0916:500 min16:460 min25 Oct
Durban01:32 → 03:0918:110 min18:130 min25 Oct
Dubai03:32 → 05:0917:440 min17:430 min25 Oct
Delhi05:02 → 06:3917:430 min17:410 min25 Oct
Kolkata05:02 → 06:3917:050 min17:030 min25 Oct
Singapore07:02 → 08:3918:210 min18:210 min25 Oct
Sydney09:32 → 11:0918:150 min18:170 min25 Oct
Suva11:32 → 13:0918:090 min18:100 min25 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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