Ruling · Mahānavamī · 1948

Monday 11 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 388 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Sunday 10 October

Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 11 October

Taken. The only midday Navamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:41  12:29 madhyāhna ends
10:5311:1711:4112:0512:2912:5313:17

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 18:57 on Sun 10 Oct to 20:53 on Mon 11 Oct.

    1948-10-10T10:56:45Z → 1948-10-11T12:53:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:41–12:29 on the 10th, 11:41–12:29 on the 11th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 10th and 48 of 48 on the 11th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

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

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 23268 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahānavamī, Baoding, 1948: Monday 11 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Mahānavamī 1948 falls on Monday 11 October. Navamī runs from 18:57 on Sun 10 Oct to 20:53 on Mon 11 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1948/mahanavami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 11 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 11 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 11 Oct
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/mahanavami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Navamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 9 Mahanavami (purvaviddha) (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha covering one muhurta from sunrise).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceNavamīMadhyāhna 10thCoveredMadhyāhna 11thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:57 → 05:5312:1648 min12:150 min10 Oct
Chicago04:57 → 06:5311:1348 min11:130 min10 Oct
Jersey City05:57 → 07:5311:1948 min11:190 min10 Oct
Port of Spain06:57 → 08:5311:2948 min11:290 min10 Oct
London11:57 → 13:5312:2348 min12:2348 min10 Oct
Durban12:57 → 14:5311:190 min11:1948 min11 Oct
Dubai14:57 → 16:5311:420 min11:4148 min11 Oct
Delhi16:27 → 18:2311:440 min11:4448 min11 Oct
Kolkata16:27 → 18:2310:590 min10:5948 min11 Oct
Singapore18:27 → 20:2311:580 min11:5748 min11 Oct
Sydney20:57 → 22:5311:190 min11:1848 min11 Oct
Suva22:57 → 00:5311:300 min11:2948 min11 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
mahanavami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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