Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1991

Saturday 16 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 43 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 15 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:00 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
06:3607:2408:1209:0009:4810:36

0 of 202 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 16 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:01 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
06:3707:2508:1309:0109:4910:37

201 of 201 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 11:05 on Fri 15 Nov to 12:43 on Sat 16 Nov.

    1991-11-15T03:04:52Z → 1991-11-16T04:43:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:00–10:22 on the 15th, 07:01–10:22 on the 16th.

    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 202 minutes on the 15th and 201 of 201 on the 16th.

    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 2593 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1991: Saturday 16 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1991 falls on Saturday 16 November. Navamī runs from 11:05 on Fri 15 Nov to 12:43 on Sat 16 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1991/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 16 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 16 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:05 → 20:4306:26208 min06:270 min15 Nov
Chicago21:05 → 22:4306:40197 min06:410 min15 Nov
Jersey City22:05 → 23:4306:43198 min06:440 min15 Nov
Port of Spain23:05 → 00:4306:02233 min06:020 min15 Nov
London03:05 → 04:4307:18178 min07:200 min15 Nov
Durban05:05 → 06:4304:53260 min04:52111 min15 Nov
Dubai07:05 → 08:4306:35189 min06:36127 min15 Nov
Delhi08:35 → 10:1306:43103 min06:44209 min16 Nov
Kolkata08:35 → 10:1305:4955 min05:50221 min16 Nov
Singapore11:05 → 12:4306:470 min06:48241 min16 Nov
Sydney14:05 → 15:4305:440 min05:44278 min16 Nov
Suva15:05 → 16:4305:220 min05:22259 min16 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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