Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2053

Thursday 20 November

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 7 min 32 s.

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 Wednesday 19 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:05 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:24
Navamī begins 10:31:38
06:4107:2908:1709:0509:5310:41

0 of 199 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 20 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:07 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:25
06:4307:3108:1909:0709:5510:43

198 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 10:32 on Wed 19 Nov to 12:15 on Thu 20 Nov.

    2053-11-19T02:31:39Z → 2053-11-20T04:15:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:05–10:24 on the 19th, 07:07–10:25 on the 20th.

    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 19th and 198 of 198 on the 20th.

    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 452 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 2053: Thursday 20 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2053 falls on Thursday 20 November. Navamī runs from 10:32 on Wed 19 Nov to 12:15 on Thu 20 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2053/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 20 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 20 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 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 Angeles18:32 → 20:1506:30205 min06:310 min19 Nov
Chicago20:32 → 22:1506:46193 min06:470 min19 Nov
Jersey City21:32 → 23:1506:49195 min06:500 min19 Nov
Port of Spain22:32 → 00:1506:04232 min06:040 min19 Nov
London02:32 → 04:1507:26173 min07:280 min19 Nov
Durban04:32 → 06:1504:50274 min04:5085 min19 Nov
Dubai06:32 → 08:1506:39217 min06:3996 min19 Nov
Delhi08:02 → 09:4506:47138 min06:48177 min20 Nov
Kolkata08:02 → 09:4505:5290 min05:53220 min20 Nov
Singapore10:32 → 12:1506:4918 min06:49241 min20 Nov
Sydney13:32 → 15:1505:420 min05:41280 min20 Nov
Suva14:32 → 16:1505:220 min05:21260 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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