Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2015

Friday 20 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 327 minutes.

Decide it for

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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 20 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

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

199 of 199 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 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 01:39 on Fri 20 Nov to 23:43 on Fri 20 Nov.

    2015-11-19T17:38:50Z → 2015-11-20T15:42:44Z

  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 199 of 199 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 19611 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 2015: Friday 20 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2015 falls on Friday 20 November. Navamī runs from 01:39 on Fri 20 Nov to 23:43 on Fri 20 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2015/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 20 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 20 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 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 Angeles09:39 → 07:4306:2916 min06:3072 min20 Nov
Chicago11:39 → 09:4306:450 min06:46177 min20 Nov
Jersey City12:39 → 10:4306:480 min06:49195 min20 Nov
Port of Spain13:39 → 11:4306:030 min06:04232 min20 Nov
London17:39 → 15:4307:250 min07:27173 min20 Nov
Durban19:39 → 17:4304:510 min04:50274 min20 Nov
Dubai21:39 → 19:4306:380 min06:39217 min20 Nov
Delhi23:09 → 21:1306:470 min06:47213 min20 Nov
Kolkata23:09 → 21:1305:520 min05:52220 min20 Nov
Singapore01:39 → 23:4306:480 min06:49241 min20 Nov
Sydney04:39 → 02:4305:420 min05:41280 min20 Nov
Suva06:39 → 04:4306:220 min06:22243 min20 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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