Ruling · Mahānavamī · 1990

Friday 28 September

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 280 minutes.

Decide it for

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44°26′ N 26°06′ E · Europe/Bucharest · GeoNames 683506

The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Thursday 27 September

Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:42  13:30 madhyāhna ends
11:5412:1812:4213:0613:3013:5414:18

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 28 September

Taken. The only midday Navamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:42  13:30 madhyāhna ends
11:5412:1812:4213:0613:3013:5414:18

48 of 48 minutes covered

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 18:10 on Thu 27 Sep to 19:56 on Fri 28 Sep.

    1990-09-27T15:10:07Z → 1990-09-28T16:55:35Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:42–13:30 on the 27th, 12:42–13:30 on the 28th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 0 of 48 minutes on the 27th and 48 of 48 on the 28th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: purvaviddha → only-day · margin 16789 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahānavamī, Bucharest, 1990: Friday 28 September.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Mahānavamī 1990 falls on Friday 28 September. Navamī runs from 18:10 on Thu 27 Sep to 19:56 on Fri 28 Sep and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/1990/mahanavami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 28 Sep
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 28 Sep
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 28 Sep
No institution has a recorded ruling for Bucharest.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/mahanavami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Navamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Pūrvaviddhā
Tie-break
First day
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 104

“S 9 Mahanavami (purvaviddha) (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha covering one muhurta from sunrise).” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104. The Bengal reading (paraviddha, one muhūrta from sunrise) is not applied.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlaceNavamīMadhyāhna 27thCoveredMadhyāhna 28thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:10 → 09:5612:2048 min12:190 min27 Sep
Chicago10:10 → 11:5612:1748 min12:170 min27 Sep
Jersey City11:10 → 12:5612:2348 min12:2333 min27 Sep
Port of Spain11:10 → 12:5611:3348 min11:3348 min27 Sep
London16:10 → 17:5612:270 min12:2748 min28 Sep
Durban17:10 → 18:5611:230 min11:2348 min28 Sep
Dubai19:10 → 20:5611:460 min11:4548 min28 Sep
Delhi20:40 → 22:2611:480 min11:4848 min28 Sep
Kolkata20:40 → 22:2611:040 min11:0348 min28 Sep
Singapore23:10 → 00:5612:320 min12:3148 min28 Sep
Sydney01:10 → 02:5611:230 min11:2248 min28 Sep
Suva03:10 → 04:5611:340 min11:3348 min28 Sep
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
mahanavami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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