Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2012

Wednesday 21 November

Determinatein Bucharest, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 161 minutes.

Decide it for

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

The two forenoons

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas.

Forenoon of Wednesday 21 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

07:20 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:28
06:5607:4408:3209:2010:0810:56

187 of 187 minutes covered

Forenoon of Thursday 22 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

07:21 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:28
06:5707:4508:3309:2110:0910:57

0 of 187 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 04:23 on Wed 21 Nov to 04:40 on Thu 22 Nov.

    2012-11-21T02:23:28Z → 2012-11-22T02:39:58Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 07:20–10:28 on the 21st, 07:21–10:28 on the 22nd.

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

  3. 03

    Rule

    Navamī must be present during pūrvāhṇa. It covers 187 of 187 minutes on the 21st and 0 of 187 on the 22nd.

    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 9687 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Bucharest, 2012: Wednesday 21 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Bucharest, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2012 falls on Wednesday 21 November. Navamī runs from 04:23 on Wed 21 Nov to 04:40 on Thu 22 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/bucharest/festivals/2012/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 21 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 21 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 21 Nov
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/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 21stCoveredSunrise 22ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:23 → 18:4006:32205 min06:330 min21 Nov
Chicago20:23 → 20:4006:48192 min06:490 min21 Nov
Jersey City21:23 → 21:4006:51194 min06:520 min21 Nov
Port of Spain22:23 → 22:4006:04232 min06:050 min21 Nov
London02:23 → 02:4007:30171 min07:310 min21 Nov
Durban04:23 → 04:4004:50275 min04:490 min21 Nov
Dubai06:23 → 06:4006:40216 min06:410 min21 Nov
Delhi07:53 → 08:1006:49147 min06:5080 min21 Nov
Kolkata07:53 → 08:1005:5399 min05:54136 min22 Nov
Singapore10:23 → 10:4006:4927 min06:49231 min22 Nov
Sydney13:23 → 13:4005:410 min05:40281 min22 Nov
Suva15:23 → 15:4006:210 min06:21261 min22 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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