Ruling · Bali Pūjā (Balidaityarāja Pūjā) · 2011

Thursday 27 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 348 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 Wednesday 26 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

16:35 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:24
16:1116:3516:5917:2317:4718:1118:35

0 of 109 minutes covered

Evening of Thursday 27 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

16:34 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:23
16:1016:3416:5817:2217:4618:1018:34

110 of 110 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 03:56 on Thu 27 Oct to 00:11 on Fri 28 Oct.

    2011-10-26T19:55:48Z → 2011-10-27T16:11:22Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 16:35–18:24 on the 26th, 16:34–18:23 on the 27th.

    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 109 minutes on the 26th and 110 of 110 on the 27th.

    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 20896 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Daqing, 2011: Thursday 27 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Bali Pūjā 2011 falls on Thursday 27 October. Pratipadā runs from 03:56 on Thu 27 Oct to 00:11 on Fri 28 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2011/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 27 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 27 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 27 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 26thCoveredSunset 27thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:56 → 09:1118:06104 min18:050 min26 Oct
Chicago14:56 → 11:1117:53107 min17:510 min26 Oct
Jersey City15:56 → 12:1118:00107 min17:590 min26 Oct
Port of Spain15:56 → 12:1117:4498 min17:430 min26 Oct
London20:56 → 17:1117:450 min17:430 min26 Oct
Durban21:56 → 18:1118:130 min18:140 min26 Oct
Dubai23:56 → 20:1117:430 min17:42102 min27 Oct
Delhi01:26 → 21:4117:410 min17:40103 min27 Oct
Kolkata01:26 → 21:4117:030 min17:02101 min27 Oct
Singapore03:56 → 00:1118:510 min18:5195 min27 Oct
Sydney06:56 → 03:1119:170 min19:1886 min27 Oct
Suva08:56 → 05:1119:100 min19:1191 min27 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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