Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1917

Friday 23 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 286 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 Thursday 22 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:08 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:25
06:4407:3208:2009:0809:5610:44

0 of 197 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 23 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:09 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:26
06:4507:3308:2109:0909:5710:45

197 of 197 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 17:25 on Thu 22 Nov to 15:12 on Fri 23 Nov.

    1917-11-22T09:25:19Z → 1917-11-23T07:11:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:08–10:25 on the 22nd, 07:09–10:26 on the 23rd.

    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 197 minutes on the 22nd and 197 of 197 on the 23rd.

    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 17154 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1917: Friday 23 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1917 falls on Friday 23 November. Navamī runs from 17:25 on Thu 22 Nov to 15:12 on Fri 23 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1917/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 23 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 23 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 23 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 22ndCoveredSunrise 23rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:25 → 23:1206:32205 min06:330 min22 Nov
Chicago03:25 → 01:1206:49192 min06:500 min22 Nov
Jersey City04:25 → 02:1206:51194 min06:520 min22 Nov
Port of Spain05:25 → 03:1206:05232 min06:050 min22 Nov
London09:25 → 07:1207:3056 min07:310 min22 Nov
Durban11:25 → 09:1204:500 min04:49262 min23 Nov
Dubai13:06 → 10:5306:210 min06:22216 min23 Nov
Delhi14:55 → 12:4206:490 min06:50212 min23 Nov
Kolkata14:55 → 12:4205:540 min05:54219 min23 Nov
Singapore16:25 → 14:1205:490 min05:49241 min23 Nov
Sydney19:25 → 17:1204:410 min04:40281 min23 Nov
Suva21:25 → 19:1205:210 min05:21261 min23 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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