Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1920

Saturday 20 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 398 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 19 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:05 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4107:2908:1709:0509:5310:41

0 of 199 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 20 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:06 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4207:3008:1809:0609:5410:42

198 of 198 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 17:02 on Fri 19 Nov to 18:12 on Sat 20 Nov.

    1920-11-19T09:02:03Z → 1920-11-20T10:11:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:05–10:24 on the 19th, 07:06–10:24 on the 20th.

    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 199 minutes on the 19th and 198 of 198 on the 20th.

    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 23893 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1920: Saturday 20 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1920 falls on Saturday 20 November. Navamī runs from 17:02 on Fri 19 Nov to 18:12 on Sat 20 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1920/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 20 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 20 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 20 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:02 → 02:1206:30206 min06:310 min19 Nov
Chicago03:02 → 04:1206:45194 min06:460 min19 Nov
Jersey City04:02 → 05:1206:48196 min06:490 min19 Nov
Port of Spain05:02 → 06:1206:03232 min06:048 min19 Nov
London09:02 → 10:1207:2577 min07:27165 min20 Nov
Durban11:02 → 12:1204:510 min04:50274 min20 Nov
Dubai13:02 → 14:1206:380 min06:39217 min20 Nov
Delhi14:32 → 15:4206:470 min06:48213 min20 Nov
Kolkata14:32 → 15:4205:520 min05:53220 min20 Nov
Singapore16:02 → 17:1205:480 min05:49241 min20 Nov
Sydney19:02 → 20:1204:420 min04:41280 min20 Nov
Suva21:02 → 22:1205:220 min05:22260 min20 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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