Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 1908

Sunday 25 October

Determinatein Queens, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 418 minutes.

Decide it for

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40°41′ N 73°50′ W · America/New_York · GeoNames 5133273

The two evenings

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

Evening of Saturday 24 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:02 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:48
16:3817:0217:2617:5018:1418:3819:02

0 of 106 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 25 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:01 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:47
16:3717:0117:2517:4918:1318:3719:01

106 of 106 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 01:46 on Sun 25 Oct to 02:22 on Mon 26 Oct.

    1908-10-25T06:46:19Z → 1908-10-26T07:22:10Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:02–18:48 on the 24th, 17:01–18:47 on the 25th.

    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 106 minutes on the 24th and 106 of 106 on the 25th.

    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 25081 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Queens, 1908: Sunday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Queens, Bali Pūjā 1908 falls on Sunday 25 October. Pratipadā runs from 01:46 on Sun 25 Oct to 02:22 on Mon 26 Oct and covers all of pradoṣa that evening.

ahargana.org/queens/festivals/1908/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 25 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Queens.

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 25thCoveredSunset 26thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:46 → 23:2217:07104 min17:060 min25 Oct
Chicago00:46 → 01:2216:54107 min16:530 min25 Oct
Jersey City01:46 → 02:2217:02106 min17:000 min25 Oct
Port of Spain02:46 → 03:2217:4498 min17:440 min25 Oct
London06:46 → 07:2216:47111 min16:450 min25 Oct
Durban08:46 → 09:2218:1287 min18:130 min25 Oct
Dubai10:27 → 11:0317:24101 min17:240 min25 Oct
Delhi12:16 → 12:5217:42102 min17:410 min25 Oct
Kolkata12:16 → 12:5217:04101 min17:030 min25 Oct
Singapore13:46 → 14:2217:5195 min17:510 min25 Oct
Sydney16:46 → 17:2218:1686 min18:170 min25 Oct
Suva18:41 → 19:1718:0554 min18:0572 min26 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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