Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1978

Thursday 9 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 50 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 Wednesday 8 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:52 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
06:2807:1608:0408:5209:4010:28

0 of 206 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 9 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:54 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:19
Navamī ends 09:29:02
06:3007:1808:0608:5409:4210:30

155 of 205 minutes covered, the first 155

Navamī presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 11:19 on Wed 8 Nov to 09:29 on Thu 9 Nov.

    1978-11-08T03:18:42Z → 1978-11-09T01:29:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:52–10:19 on the 8th, 06:54–10:19 on the 9th.

    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 206 minutes on the 8th and 155 of 205 on the 9th.

    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 2999 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1978: Thursday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1978 falls on Thursday 9 November. Navamī runs from 11:19 on Wed 8 Nov to 09:29 on Thu 9 Nov and covers 155 of 205 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1978/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 9 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:19 → 17:2906:19212 min06:200 min8 Nov
Chicago21:19 → 19:2906:32202 min06:330 min8 Nov
Jersey City22:19 → 20:2906:35203 min06:360 min8 Nov
Port of Spain23:19 → 21:2905:59234 min06:000 min8 Nov
London03:19 → 01:2907:06185 min07:080 min8 Nov
Durban05:19 → 03:2904:57247 min04:560 min8 Nov
Dubai07:19 → 05:2906:31173 min06:310 min8 Nov
Delhi08:49 → 06:5906:3887 min06:3920 min8 Nov
Kolkata08:49 → 06:5905:4540 min05:4574 min9 Nov
Singapore10:49 → 08:5906:170 min06:17162 min9 Nov
Sydney14:19 → 12:2905:500 min05:49274 min9 Nov
Suva15:19 → 13:2905:250 min05:24257 min9 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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