Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1950

Saturday 18 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 37 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 17 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:02 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:23
06:3807:2608:1409:0209:5010:38

0 of 200 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 18 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:03 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:23
06:3907:2708:1509:0309:5110:39

200 of 200 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 11:00 on Fri 17 Nov to 11:22 on Sat 18 Nov.

    1950-11-17T03:00:03Z → 1950-11-18T03:22:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:02–10:23 on the 17th, 07:03–10:23 on the 18th.

    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 200 minutes on the 17th and 200 of 200 on the 18th.

    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 2245 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1950: Saturday 18 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1950 falls on Saturday 18 November. Navamī runs from 11:00 on Fri 17 Nov to 11:22 on Sat 18 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1950/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 18 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 18 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 18 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:00 → 19:2206:27207 min06:280 min17 Nov
Chicago21:00 → 21:2206:42195 min06:440 min17 Nov
Jersey City22:00 → 22:2206:45197 min06:470 min17 Nov
Port of Spain23:00 → 23:2206:02232 min06:030 min17 Nov
London03:00 → 03:2207:21176 min07:230 min17 Nov
Durban05:00 → 05:2204:52265 min04:5131 min17 Nov
Dubai07:00 → 07:2206:37195 min06:3745 min17 Nov
Delhi08:30 → 08:5206:45109 min06:46126 min18 Nov
Kolkata08:30 → 08:5205:5061 min05:51181 min18 Nov
Singapore10:30 → 10:5206:180 min06:18241 min18 Nov
Sydney13:00 → 13:2204:430 min04:43279 min18 Nov
Suva15:00 → 15:2205:220 min05:22260 min18 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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