Ruling · Bali Pūjā · 2003

Sunday 26 October

Boundaryin Shaoxing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 05 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

ShaoxingDelhiKolkataSingaporeSydneyJersey City

30°00′ N 120°35′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1795855

The two evenings

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

Evening of Saturday 25 October

Pratipadā is absent from pradoṣa. Not taken.

17:17 sunsetpradoṣa ends 19:00
16:5317:1717:4118:0518:2918:5319:17

0 of 103 minutes covered

Evening of Sunday 26 October

Taken. The only evening Pratipadā reaches.

17:16 sunsetpradoṣa ends 18:59
Pratipadā ends 17:17:27
16:5217:1617:4018:0418:2818:5219:16

1 of 103 minutes covered, the first 1

Pratipadā presentPradoṣa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pratipadā runs from 20:50 on Sat 25 Oct to 17:17 on Sun 26 Oct.

    2003-10-25T12:50:18Z → 2003-10-26T09:17:27Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pradoṣa is 2 muhūrtas after sunset: 17:17–19:00 on the 25th, 17:16–18:59 on the 26th.

    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 103 minutes on the 25th and 1 of 103 on the 26th.

    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 65 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Bali Pūjā, Shaoxing, 2003: Sunday 26 October.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Shaoxing, Bali Pūjā 2003 falls on Sunday 26 October. Pratipadā runs from 20:50 on Sat 25 Oct to 17:17 on Sun 26 Oct and covers 1 of 103 minutes of pradoṣa that evening. It is 1 min 05 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/shaoxing/festivals/2003/bali-puja · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 26 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 26 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 26 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Shaoxing.

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 Angeles05:50 → 01:1718:07104 min17:060 min25 Oct
Chicago07:50 → 03:1717:54107 min16:530 min25 Oct
Jersey City08:50 → 04:1718:02106 min17:000 min25 Oct
Port of Spain08:50 → 05:1717:4498 min17:440 min25 Oct
London13:50 → 09:1717:47111 min16:450 min25 Oct
Durban14:50 → 11:1718:1287 min18:130 min25 Oct
Dubai16:50 → 13:1717:43101 min17:430 min25 Oct
Delhi18:20 → 14:4717:4264 min17:410 min25 Oct
Kolkata18:20 → 14:4717:0424 min17:030 min25 Oct
Singapore20:50 → 17:1718:510 min18:510 min25 Oct
Sydney22:50 → 20:1718:160 min19:1761 min26 Oct
Suva00:50 → 21:1718:100 min18:1091 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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