Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1976

Sunday 31 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 467 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 Saturday 30 October

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:43 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1907:0707:5508:4309:3110:19

0 of 212 minutes covered

Forenoon of Sunday 31 October

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:44 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
06:2007:0807:5608:4409:3210:20

212 of 212 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 18:02 on Sat 30 Oct to 18:30 on Sun 31 Oct.

    1976-10-30T10:02:27Z → 1976-10-31T10:30:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:43–10:15 on the 30th, 06:44–10:16 on the 31st.

    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 212 minutes on the 30th and 212 of 212 on the 31st.

    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 28021 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1976: Sunday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1976 falls on Sunday 31 October. Navamī runs from 18:02 on Sat 30 Oct to 18:30 on Sun 31 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1976/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 31 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 30thCoveredSunrise 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles03:02 → 02:3007:11217 min06:120 min30 Oct
Chicago05:02 → 04:3007:21209 min06:220 min30 Oct
Jersey City06:02 → 05:3007:25210 min06:260 min30 Oct
Port of Spain06:02 → 06:3005:57230 min05:5733 min30 Oct
London10:02 → 10:3006:514 min06:53194 min31 Oct
Durban12:02 → 12:3005:030 min05:03265 min31 Oct
Dubai14:02 → 14:3006:250 min06:26224 min31 Oct
Delhi15:32 → 16:0006:320 min06:33221 min31 Oct
Kolkata15:32 → 16:0005:400 min05:41226 min31 Oct
Singapore17:32 → 18:0006:160 min06:16241 min31 Oct
Sydney20:02 → 21:3004:570 min05:56269 min31 Oct
Suva22:02 → 22:3005:280 min05:28255 min31 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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