Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2018

Saturday 17 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 108 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 16 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:02 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:22
06:3807:2608:1409:0209:5010:38

0 of 201 minutes covered

Forenoon of Saturday 17 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

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

200 of 200 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 12:10 on Fri 16 Nov to 14:25 on Sat 17 Nov.

    2018-11-16T04:10:26Z → 2018-11-17T06:24:34Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:02–10:22 on the 16th, 07:03–10:23 on the 17th.

    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 201 minutes on the 16th and 200 of 200 on the 17th.

    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 6488 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 2018: Saturday 17 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2018 falls on Saturday 17 November. Navamī runs from 12:10 on Fri 16 Nov to 14:25 on Sat 17 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2018/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 17 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 17 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 17 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 16thCoveredSunrise 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:10 → 22:2506:27207 min06:280 min16 Nov
Chicago22:10 → 00:2506:42196 min06:430 min16 Nov
Jersey City23:10 → 01:2506:45198 min06:460 min16 Nov
Port of Spain00:10 → 02:2506:02232 min06:030 min16 Nov
London04:10 → 06:2507:20176 min07:220 min16 Nov
Durban06:10 → 08:2504:52194 min04:51213 min17 Nov
Dubai08:10 → 10:2506:36124 min06:37218 min17 Nov
Delhi09:40 → 11:5506:4538 min06:45214 min17 Nov
Kolkata09:40 → 11:5505:500 min05:51221 min17 Nov
Singapore12:10 → 14:2506:480 min06:48241 min17 Nov
Sydney15:10 → 17:2505:430 min05:43278 min17 Nov
Suva17:10 → 19:2506:220 min06:22260 min17 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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