Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1916

Saturday 4 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 43 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Friday 3 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:47 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:17
06:2307:1107:5908:4709:3510:23

0 of 210 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 4 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:48 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:17
06:2407:1208:0008:4809:3610:24

209 of 209 minutes covered

Navamī presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 12:52 on Fri 3 Nov to 11:00 on Sat 4 Nov.

    1916-11-03T04:51:47Z → 1916-11-04T02:59:59Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:47–10:17 on the 3rd, 06:48–10:17 on the 4th.

    purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 0 of 210 minutes on the 3rd and 209 of 209 on the 4th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one forenoon qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2573 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1916: Saturday 4 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1916 falls on Saturday 4 November. Navamī runs from 12:52 on Fri 3 Nov to 11:00 on Sat 4 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1916/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 4 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 4 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 4 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/akshaya-navami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Kārtika, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Navamī
Kāla
Pūrvāhṇa
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 9 Aksaya navami (purvahnavyapini), Jagaddhatri puja (Bengal), (udayavyapini one muhurta), Anla navami (Orissa), Durga navami (purvaviddha), Gauri vrata.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceNavamīSunrise 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:52 → 19:0006:15215 min06:160 min3 Nov
Chicago22:52 → 21:0006:26206 min06:270 min3 Nov
Jersey City23:52 → 22:0006:29207 min06:300 min3 Nov
Port of Spain00:52 → 23:0005:58234 min05:580 min3 Nov
London04:52 → 03:0006:57191 min06:590 min3 Nov
Durban06:52 → 05:0005:01155 min05:000 min3 Nov
Dubai08:33 → 06:4106:0879 min06:0932 min3 Nov
Delhi10:22 → 08:3006:340 min06:35115 min4 Nov
Kolkata10:22 → 08:3005:420 min05:43167 min4 Nov
Singapore11:52 → 10:0005:460 min05:46241 min4 Nov
Sydney14:52 → 13:0004:540 min04:53271 min4 Nov
Suva16:52 → 15:0005:270 min05:26256 min4 Nov
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
akshaya-navami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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