Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1960

Friday 28 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 246 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 28 October

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:41 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1707:0507:5308:4109:2910:17

214 of 214 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 29 October

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:42 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1807:0607:5408:4209:3010:18

0 of 213 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 02:35 on Fri 28 Oct to 00:47 on Sat 29 Oct.

    1960-10-27T18:34:31Z → 1960-10-28T16:46:51Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:41–10:15 on the 28th, 06:42–10:15 on the 29th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 214 of 214 minutes on the 28th and 0 of 213 on the 29th.

    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 14778 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1960: Friday 28 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1960 falls on Friday 28 October. Navamī runs from 02:35 on Fri 28 Oct to 00:47 on Sat 29 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1960/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 28 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 28 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 28 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/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 27thCoveredSunrise 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:35 → 08:4706:090 min06:09157 min28 Oct
Chicago13:35 → 11:4707:170 min07:19210 min28 Oct
Jersey City14:35 → 12:4707:210 min07:22212 min28 Oct
Port of Spain14:35 → 12:4705:570 min05:57235 min28 Oct
London18:35 → 16:4706:450 min06:47198 min28 Oct
Durban20:35 → 18:4705:060 min05:05263 min28 Oct
Dubai22:35 → 20:4706:230 min06:24226 min28 Oct
Delhi00:05 → 22:1706:300 min06:30223 min28 Oct
Kolkata00:05 → 22:1705:390 min05:39227 min28 Oct
Singapore02:05 → 00:1706:170 min06:16241 min28 Oct
Sydney04:35 → 02:4705:010 min05:00266 min28 Oct
Suva06:35 → 04:4705:300 min05:30189 min28 Oct
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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