Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1961

Thursday 16 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 12 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 16 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:01 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
Navamī begins 07:13:07
06:3707:2508:1309:0109:4910:37

189 of 201 minutes covered, the last 189

Forenoon of Friday 17 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

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

0 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 07:13 on Thu 16 Nov to 05:10 on Fri 17 Nov.

    1961-11-15T23:13:07Z → 1961-11-16T21:10:17Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:01–10:22 on the 16th, 07:03–10:23 on the 17th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 189 of 201 minutes on the 16th and 0 of 200 on the 17th.

    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 698 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1961: Thursday 16 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1961 falls on Thursday 16 November. Navamī runs from 07:13 on Thu 16 Nov to 05:10 on Fri 17 Nov and covers 189 of 201 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1961/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 16 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 16 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:13 → 13:1006:260 min06:27207 min16 Nov
Chicago17:13 → 15:1006:400 min06:42196 min16 Nov
Jersey City18:13 → 16:1006:430 min06:45198 min16 Nov
Port of Spain19:13 → 17:1006:020 min06:02232 min16 Nov
London23:13 → 21:1007:190 min07:20177 min16 Nov
Durban01:13 → 23:1004:530 min04:52273 min16 Nov
Dubai03:13 → 01:1006:350 min06:36218 min16 Nov
Delhi04:43 → 02:4006:440 min06:44214 min16 Nov
Kolkata04:43 → 02:4005:490 min05:50221 min16 Nov
Singapore06:43 → 04:4006:180 min06:18216 min16 Nov
Sydney09:13 → 07:1004:440 min04:448 min17 Nov
Suva11:13 → 09:1005:220 min05:220 min17 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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