Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1988

Friday 18 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 252 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 Thursday 17 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:03 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:23
06:3907:2708:1509:0309:5110:39

0 of 200 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 18 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

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

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 16:39 on Thu 17 Nov to 14:36 on Fri 18 Nov.

    1988-11-17T08:39:19Z → 1988-11-18T06:35:33Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:03–10:23 on the 17th, 07:04–10:23 on the 18th.

    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 17th and 199 of 199 on the 18th.

    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 15124 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1988: Friday 18 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1988 falls on Friday 18 November. Navamī runs from 16:39 on Thu 17 Nov to 14:36 on Fri 18 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1988/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 18 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 18 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 18 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:39 → 22:3606:28206 min06:290 min17 Nov
Chicago02:39 → 00:3606:43195 min06:450 min17 Nov
Jersey City03:39 → 01:3606:46197 min06:470 min17 Nov
Port of Spain04:39 → 02:3606:03232 min06:030 min17 Nov
London08:39 → 06:3607:2398 min07:240 min17 Nov
Durban10:39 → 08:3604:510 min04:51225 min18 Nov
Dubai12:39 → 10:3606:370 min06:38217 min18 Nov
Delhi14:09 → 12:0606:460 min06:46213 min18 Nov
Kolkata14:09 → 12:0605:510 min05:51220 min18 Nov
Singapore16:39 → 14:3606:480 min06:48241 min18 Nov
Sydney19:39 → 17:3605:430 min05:42279 min18 Nov
Suva20:39 → 18:3605:220 min05:22260 min18 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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