Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1925

Saturday 17 October

Determinatein Phoenix, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 407 minutes.

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33°27′ N 112°04′ W · America/Phoenix · GeoNames 5308655

The two evenings

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

Evening of Saturday 17 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:52 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:34
17:2817:5218:1618:4019:0419:2819:52

102 of 102 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 18 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:51 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:33
17:2717:5118:1518:3919:0319:2719:51

0 of 102 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 11:06 on Sat 17 Oct to 10:24 on Sun 18 Oct.

    1925-10-17T18:05:36Z → 1925-10-18T17:23:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:52–19:34 on the 17th, 17:51–19:33 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 102 of 102 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 102 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 24412 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Phoenix, 1925: Saturday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Phoenix, Bali Pūjā 1925 falls on Saturday 17 October. Pratipadā runs from 11:06 on Sat 17 Oct to 10:24 on Sun 18 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/phoenix/festivals/1925/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 17 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Phoenix.

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 Angeles10:06 → 09:2417:17102 min17:150 min17 Oct
Chicago12:06 → 11:2417:06104 min17:050 min17 Oct
Jersey City13:06 → 12:2417:13104 min17:120 min17 Oct
Port of Spain14:06 → 13:2417:4897 min17:470 min17 Oct
London18:06 → 17:2417:0446 min17:0222 min17 Oct
Durban20:06 → 19:2418:060 min18:0777 min18 Oct
Dubai22:06 → 21:2417:500 min17:49100 min18 Oct
Delhi23:36 → 22:5417:500 min17:49101 min18 Oct
Kolkata23:36 → 22:5417:100 min17:0999 min18 Oct
Singapore01:06 → 00:2417:520 min17:5295 min18 Oct
Sydney04:06 → 03:2418:090 min18:1088 min18 Oct
Suva06:06 → 05:2418:070 min18:0792 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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