Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1985

Wednesday 20 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 49 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 20 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:06 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4207:3008:1809:0609:5410:42

198 of 198 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 21 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:07 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:25
06:4307:3108:1909:0709:5510:43

0 of 198 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 05:17 on Wed 20 Nov to 06:18 on Thu 21 Nov.

    1985-11-19T21:16:58Z → 1985-11-20T22:17:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:06–10:24 on the 20th, 07:07–10:25 on the 21st.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 198 of 198 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 198 on the 21st.

    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 2965 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1985: Wednesday 20 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1985 falls on Wednesday 20 November. Navamī runs from 05:17 on Wed 20 Nov to 06:18 on Thu 21 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1985/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 20 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 20 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 20 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles13:17 → 14:1806:300 min06:31205 min20 Nov
Chicago15:17 → 16:1806:450 min06:47193 min20 Nov
Jersey City16:17 → 17:1806:480 min06:49195 min20 Nov
Port of Spain17:17 → 18:1806:030 min06:04232 min20 Nov
London21:17 → 22:1807:260 min07:27172 min20 Nov
Durban23:17 → 00:1804:510 min04:50274 min20 Nov
Dubai01:17 → 02:1806:380 min06:39217 min20 Nov
Delhi02:47 → 03:4806:470 min06:48213 min20 Nov
Kolkata02:47 → 03:4805:520 min05:53220 min20 Nov
Singapore05:17 → 06:1806:480 min06:49241 min20 Nov
Sydney08:17 → 09:1805:420 min05:41124 min21 Nov
Suva09:17 → 10:1805:220 min05:2225 min21 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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