Sunday 23 November

How it was decided

1. 01

   Aṅga

   Navamī runs from 09:49 on Sat 22 Nov to 08:14 on Sun 23 Nov.

   2031-11-22T01:49:16Z → 2031-11-23T00:14:08Z

2. 02

   Kāla

   Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:08–10:25 on the 22nd, 07:09–10:26 on the 23rd.

   purvahna: day-muhurta-1-5 · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

3. 03

   Rule

   Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 36 of 197 minutes on the 22nd and 65 of 197 on the 23rd.

   Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

4. 04

   Tie-break

   Both forenoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

   priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 2161 s

5. 05

   Ruling

   Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 2031: Sunday 23 November.

   confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2031 falls on Sunday 23 November. Navamī runs from 09:49 on Sat 22 Nov to 08:14 on Sun 23 Nov and covers 65 of 197 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the previous forenoon for 36 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

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