Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1954

Friday 5 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 358 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 4 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:48 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:17
06:2407:1208:0008:4809:3610:24

0 of 209 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 5 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:49 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:17
06:2507:1308:0108:4909:3710:25

208 of 208 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 16:54 on Thu 4 Nov to 16:15 on Fri 5 Nov.

    1954-11-04T08:54:22Z → 1954-11-05T08:15:05Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:48–10:17 on the 4th, 06:49–10:17 on the 5th.

    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 209 minutes on the 4th and 208 of 208 on the 5th.

    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 21464 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1954: Friday 5 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1954 falls on Friday 5 November. Navamī runs from 16:54 on Thu 4 Nov to 16:15 on Fri 5 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1954/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 5 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 5 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 5 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 4thCoveredSunrise 5thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:54 → 00:1506:15214 min06:160 min4 Nov
Chicago02:54 → 02:1506:27205 min06:280 min4 Nov
Jersey City03:54 → 03:1506:30206 min06:310 min4 Nov
Port of Spain04:54 → 04:1505:58234 min05:580 min4 Nov
London08:54 → 08:1506:5974 min07:0075 min5 Nov
Durban10:54 → 10:1505:000 min04:59267 min5 Nov
Dubai12:54 → 12:1506:280 min06:29222 min5 Nov
Delhi14:24 → 13:4506:350 min06:36219 min5 Nov
Kolkata14:24 → 13:4505:420 min05:43225 min5 Nov
Singapore16:24 → 15:4506:160 min06:16241 min5 Nov
Sydney18:54 → 18:1504:530 min04:52271 min5 Nov
Suva20:54 → 20:1505:260 min05:26256 min5 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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