Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1953

Sunday 15 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 236 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 Sunday 15 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:00 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
06:3607:2408:1209:0009:4810:36

201 of 201 minutes covered

Forenoon of Monday 16 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:01 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
06:3707:2508:1309:0109:4910:37

0 of 201 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 03:04 on Sun 15 Nov to 01:05 on Mon 16 Nov.

    1953-11-14T19:04:02Z → 1953-11-15T17:04:47Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:00–10:22 on the 15th, 07:01–10:22 on the 16th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 201 of 201 minutes on the 15th and 0 of 201 on the 16th.

    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 14179 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1953: Sunday 15 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1953 falls on Sunday 15 November. Navamī runs from 03:04 on Sun 15 Nov to 01:05 on Mon 16 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1953/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 15 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 15 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 15 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:04 → 09:0506:250 min06:26159 min15 Nov
Chicago13:04 → 11:0506:390 min06:40196 min15 Nov
Jersey City14:04 → 12:0506:420 min06:43198 min15 Nov
Port of Spain15:04 → 13:0506:010 min06:02233 min15 Nov
London19:04 → 17:0507:170 min07:18178 min15 Nov
Durban21:04 → 19:0504:530 min04:53272 min15 Nov
Dubai23:04 → 21:0506:350 min06:35219 min15 Nov
Delhi00:34 → 22:3506:430 min06:44215 min15 Nov
Kolkata00:34 → 22:3505:490 min05:49221 min15 Nov
Singapore02:34 → 00:3506:170 min06:18241 min15 Nov
Sydney05:04 → 03:0504:450 min04:44257 min15 Nov
Suva07:04 → 05:0505:230 min05:22157 min15 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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