Tuesday 2 November

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Navamī runs from 05:41 on Tue 2 Nov to 08:06 on Wed 3 Nov.

   1965-11-01T21:41:16Z → 1965-11-03T00:05:37Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:46–10:16 on the 2nd, 06:47–10:17 on the 3rd.

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

3. 03

   Rule

   Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 210 of 210 minutes on the 2nd and 79 of 210 on the 3rd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both forenoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 3885 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1965: Tuesday 2 November.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1965 falls on Tuesday 2 November. Navamī runs from 05:41 on Tue 2 Nov to 08:06 on Wed 3 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the next forenoon for 79 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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