Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1973

Sunday 4 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 108 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 4 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

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

209 of 209 minutes covered

Forenoon of Monday 5 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

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

0 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 03:30 on Sun 4 Nov to 05:01 on Mon 5 Nov.

    1973-11-03T19:29:50Z → 1973-11-04T21:01:21Z

  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 209 of 209 minutes on the 4th and 0 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 6481 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1973: Sunday 4 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1973 falls on Sunday 4 November. Navamī runs from 03:30 on Sun 4 Nov to 05:01 on Mon 5 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1973/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 4 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 4 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 4 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:30 → 13:0106:150 min06:16214 min4 Nov
Chicago13:30 → 15:0106:260 min06:27205 min4 Nov
Jersey City14:30 → 16:0106:290 min06:30206 min4 Nov
Port of Spain15:30 → 17:0105:580 min05:58234 min4 Nov
London19:30 → 21:0106:580 min06:59190 min4 Nov
Durban21:30 → 23:0105:000 min05:00267 min4 Nov
Dubai23:30 → 01:0106:280 min06:28223 min4 Nov
Delhi01:00 → 02:3106:350 min06:35219 min4 Nov
Kolkata01:00 → 02:3105:420 min05:43225 min4 Nov
Singapore03:00 → 04:3106:160 min06:16241 min4 Nov
Sydney06:30 → 08:0105:540 min05:53234 min4 Nov
Suva07:30 → 09:0105:270 min05:26132 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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