Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 1982

Tuesday 16 November

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 306 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 Monday 15 November

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:07 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:04
15:4316:0716:3116:5517:1917:4318:0718:31

0 of 117 minutes covered

Evening of Tuesday 16 November

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:06 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:03
15:4216:0616:3016:5417:1817:4218:0618:30

117 of 117 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 23:10 on Mon 15 Nov to 00:34 on Wed 17 Nov.

    1982-11-15T15:09:54Z → 1982-11-16T16:33:54Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:07–18:04 on the 15th, 16:06–18:03 on the 16th.

    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 117 minutes on the 15th and 117 of 117 on the 16th.

    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 18359 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 1982: Tuesday 16 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 1982 falls on Tuesday 16 November. Pratipadā runs from 23:10 on Mon 15 Nov to 00:34 on Wed 17 Nov and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1982/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 16 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 16 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 16 Nov
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 15thCoveredSunset 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:10 → 08:3416:49109 min16:490 min15 Nov
Chicago09:10 → 10:3416:30114 min16:290 min15 Nov
Jersey City10:10 → 11:3416:38113 min16:370 min15 Nov
Port of Spain11:10 → 12:3417:4099 min17:400 min15 Nov
London15:10 → 16:3416:11121 min16:1024 min15 Nov
Durban17:10 → 18:3418:2983 min18:304 min15 Nov
Dubai19:10 → 20:3417:316 min17:31105 min16 Nov
Delhi20:40 → 22:0417:270 min17:27106 min16 Nov
Kolkata20:40 → 22:0416:530 min16:53104 min16 Nov
Singapore23:10 → 00:3418:510 min18:5196 min16 Nov
Sydney02:10 → 03:3419:360 min19:3681 min16 Nov
Suva03:10 → 04:3418:190 min18:2088 min16 Nov
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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