Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1940

Friday 8 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 448 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 7 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:52 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:18
06:2807:1608:0408:5209:4010:28

0 of 207 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 8 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:53 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
06:2907:1708:0508:5309:4110:29

206 of 206 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 17:46 on Thu 7 Nov to 19:34 on Fri 8 Nov.

    1940-11-07T09:46:16Z → 1940-11-08T11:33:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:52–10:18 on the 7th, 06:53–10:19 on the 8th.

    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 207 minutes on the 7th and 206 of 206 on the 8th.

    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 26877 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1940: Friday 8 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1940 falls on Friday 8 November. Navamī runs from 17:46 on Thu 7 Nov to 19:34 on Fri 8 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1940/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 8 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 8 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 8 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 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:46 → 03:3406:18212 min06:190 min7 Nov
Chicago03:46 → 05:3406:31202 min06:320 min7 Nov
Jersey City04:46 → 06:3406:34204 min06:350 min7 Nov
Port of Spain05:46 → 07:3405:59234 min05:5994 min7 Nov
London10:46 → 12:3408:0525 min08:06185 min8 Nov
Durban11:46 → 13:3404:570 min04:57269 min8 Nov
Dubai13:46 → 15:3406:300 min06:31221 min8 Nov
Delhi15:16 → 17:0406:380 min06:38218 min8 Nov
Kolkata15:16 → 17:0405:440 min05:45223 min8 Nov
Singapore17:06 → 18:5406:070 min06:07241 min8 Nov
Sydney19:46 → 21:3404:500 min04:49273 min8 Nov
Suva21:46 → 23:3405:250 min05:25257 min8 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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