Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1996

Tuesday 19 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 474 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 18 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:04 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4007:2808:1609:0409:5210:40

0 of 199 minutes covered

Forenoon of Tuesday 19 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:05 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
06:4107:2908:1709:0509:5310:41

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 20:09 on Mon 18 Nov to 18:18 on Tue 19 Nov.

    1996-11-18T12:09:12Z → 1996-11-19T10:17:43Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:04–10:24 on the 18th, 07:05–10:24 on the 19th.

    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 199 minutes on the 18th and 199 of 199 on the 19th.

    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 28422 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 1996: Tuesday 19 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1996 falls on Tuesday 19 November. Navamī runs from 20:09 on Mon 18 Nov to 18:18 on Tue 19 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1996/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 19 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 19 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 19 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:09 → 02:1806:29206 min06:300 min18 Nov
Chicago06:09 → 04:1806:45194 min06:460 min18 Nov
Jersey City07:09 → 05:1806:47174 min06:490 min18 Nov
Port of Spain08:09 → 06:1806:03106 min06:0414 min18 Nov
London12:09 → 10:1807:240 min07:26172 min19 Nov
Durban14:09 → 12:1804:510 min04:50274 min19 Nov
Dubai16:09 → 14:1806:380 min06:39217 min19 Nov
Delhi17:39 → 15:4806:460 min06:47213 min19 Nov
Kolkata17:39 → 15:4805:510 min05:52220 min19 Nov
Singapore20:09 → 18:1806:480 min06:48241 min19 Nov
Sydney23:09 → 21:1805:420 min05:42279 min19 Nov
Suva00:09 → 22:1805:220 min05:22260 min19 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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