Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1979

Monday 29 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 30 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 Monday 29 October

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:41 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
Navamī begins 08:13:21
06:1707:0507:5308:4109:2910:17

122 of 214 minutes covered, the last 122

Forenoon of Tuesday 30 October

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:42 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
06:1807:0607:5408:4209:3010:18

0 of 213 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 08:13 on Mon 29 Oct to 06:12 on Tue 30 Oct.

    1979-10-29T00:13:21Z → 1979-10-29T22:11:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:41–10:15 on the 29th, 06:42–10:15 on the 30th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 122 of 214 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 213 on the 30th.

    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 1827 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1979: Monday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1979 falls on Monday 29 October. Navamī runs from 08:13 on Mon 29 Oct to 06:12 on Tue 30 Oct and covers 122 of 214 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1979/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 29 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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:13 → 14:1206:10218 min06:110 min29 Oct
Chicago18:13 → 16:1206:19210 min06:200 min29 Oct
Jersey City19:13 → 17:1206:23211 min06:240 min29 Oct
Port of Spain20:13 → 18:1205:57235 min05:570 min29 Oct
London00:13 → 22:1206:48197 min06:500 min29 Oct
Durban02:13 → 00:1205:05263 min05:040 min29 Oct
Dubai04:13 → 02:1206:24225 min06:250 min29 Oct
Delhi05:43 → 03:4206:31223 min06:310 min29 Oct
Kolkata05:43 → 03:4205:39223 min05:400 min29 Oct
Singapore07:43 → 05:4206:16154 min06:160 min29 Oct
Sydney11:13 → 09:1205:590 min05:58194 min30 Oct
Suva12:13 → 10:1205:290 min05:29254 min30 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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