Tuesday 20 October

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Pratipadā runs from 15:09 on Tue 20 Oct to 17:41 on Wed 21 Oct.

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

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:38–19:20 on the 20th, 17:37–19:19 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 102 of 102 minutes on the 20th and 4 of 102 on the 21st.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both evenings qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 233 s < 300 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Bali Pūjā, Multan, 1998: Tuesday 20 October.

   confidence: boundary (margin, tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Multan, Bali Pūjā 1998 falls on Tuesday 20 October. Pratipadā runs from 15:09 on Tue 20 Oct to 17:41 on Wed 21 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening. It also reaches the next evening for 4 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested. It is 3 min 53 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

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