Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2082

Friday 30 October

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both forenoons qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.

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 Thursday 29 October

Qualifies with 110 of 213 minutes. Not taken.

06:43 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:15
Navamī begins 08:25:09
06:1907:0707:5508:4309:3110:19

110 of 213 minutes covered, the last 110

Forenoon of Friday 30 October

Taken. Both forenoons qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.

06:44 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:16
Navamī ends 09:18:48
06:2007:0807:5608:4409:3210:20

155 of 212 minutes covered, the first 155

Navamī presentPūrvāhṇa, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 08:25 on Thu 29 Oct to 09:19 on Fri 30 Oct.

    2082-10-29T00:25:10Z → 2082-10-30T01:18:48Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:43–10:15 on the 29th, 06:44–10:16 on the 30th.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 110 of 213 minutes on the 29th and 155 of 212 on the 30th.

    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 3414 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Baoding, 2082: Friday 30 October.

    confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2082 falls on Friday 30 October. Navamī runs from 08:25 on Thu 29 Oct to 09:19 on Fri 30 Oct and covers 155 of 212 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the previous forenoon for 110 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/2082/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 30 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 30 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 30 Oct
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 29thCoveredSunrise 30thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles17:25 → 18:1907:11217 min07:120 min29 Oct
Chicago19:25 → 20:1907:20209 min07:220 min29 Oct
Jersey City20:25 → 21:1907:24210 min07:250 min29 Oct
Port of Spain20:25 → 21:1905:57235 min05:570 min29 Oct
London00:25 → 01:1906:50196 min06:520 min29 Oct
Durban02:25 → 03:1905:04264 min05:030 min29 Oct
Dubai04:25 → 05:1906:25225 min06:260 min29 Oct
Delhi05:55 → 06:4906:32222 min06:3217 min29 Oct
Kolkata05:55 → 06:4905:40212 min05:4068 min29 Oct
Singapore08:25 → 09:1906:47143 min06:47152 min30 Oct
Sydney11:25 → 12:1905:580 min05:57268 min30 Oct
Suva12:25 → 13:1905:290 min05:28255 min30 Oct
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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