Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1939

Monday 20 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 475 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 Monday 20 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

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

199 of 199 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 21 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:06 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:25
06:4207:3008:1809:0609:5410:42

0 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 20:37 on Sun 19 Nov to 23:12 on Mon 20 Nov.

    1939-11-19T12:37:18Z → 1939-11-20T15:11:46Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:05–10:24 on the 20th, 07:06–10:25 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 199 of 199 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 198 on the 21st.

    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 28471 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1939: Monday 20 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1939 falls on Monday 20 November. Navamī runs from 20:37 on Sun 19 Nov to 23:12 on Mon 20 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1939/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 20 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 20 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 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 Angeles04:37 → 07:1206:29206 min06:3042 min19 Nov
Chicago06:37 → 09:1206:44194 min06:46146 min19 Nov
Jersey City07:37 → 10:1206:47146 min06:48195 min20 Nov
Port of Spain08:37 → 11:1206:0378 min06:04232 min20 Nov
London12:37 → 15:1207:240 min07:26173 min20 Nov
Durban14:37 → 17:1204:510 min04:51274 min20 Nov
Dubai16:37 → 19:1206:380 min06:39217 min20 Nov
Delhi18:07 → 20:4206:460 min06:47213 min20 Nov
Kolkata18:07 → 20:4205:510 min05:52220 min20 Nov
Singapore19:57 → 22:3206:080 min06:08241 min20 Nov
Sydney22:37 → 01:1204:420 min04:42279 min20 Nov
Suva00:37 → 03:1205:220 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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