Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1977

Saturday 19 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 400 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 18 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:04 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:23
06:4007:2808:1609:0409:5210:40

0 of 200 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 19 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:05 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4107:2908:1709:0509:5310:41

199 of 199 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 17:26 on Fri 18 Nov to 17:04 on Sat 19 Nov.

    1977-11-18T09:26:13Z → 1977-11-19T09:04:07Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:04–10:23 on the 18th, 07:05–10:24 on the 19th.

    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 200 minutes on the 18th and 199 of 199 on the 19th.

    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 24016 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1977: Saturday 19 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1977 falls on Saturday 19 November. Navamī runs from 17:26 on Fri 18 Nov to 17:04 on Sat 19 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1977/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 19 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 19 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 19 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles01:26 → 01:0406:29206 min06:300 min18 Nov
Chicago03:26 → 03:0406:44194 min06:450 min18 Nov
Jersey City04:26 → 04:0406:47196 min06:480 min18 Nov
Port of Spain05:26 → 05:0406:03232 min06:030 min18 Nov
London09:26 → 09:0407:2452 min07:2599 min19 Nov
Durban11:26 → 11:0404:510 min04:51274 min19 Nov
Dubai13:26 → 13:0406:380 min06:38217 min19 Nov
Delhi14:56 → 14:3406:460 min06:47213 min19 Nov
Kolkata14:56 → 14:3405:510 min05:52220 min19 Nov
Singapore16:56 → 16:3406:180 min06:18241 min19 Nov
Sydney20:26 → 20:0405:420 min05:42279 min19 Nov
Suva21:26 → 21:0405:220 min05:22260 min19 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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