Ruling · Mahānavamī · 2076

Wednesday 7 October

Boundaryin Daegu, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 3 min 54 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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The two middays

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

Midday of Tuesday 6 October

Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:49  12:37 madhyāhna ends
11:0111:2511:4912:1312:3713:0113:25

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Wednesday 7 October

Taken. The only midday Navamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:49  12:37 madhyāhna ends
Navamī ends 12:33:18
11:0111:2511:4912:1312:3713:0113:25

44 of 48 minutes covered, the first 44

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 14:37 on Tue 6 Oct to 12:33 on Wed 7 Oct.

    2076-10-06T05:36:47Z → 2076-10-07T03:33:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:49–12:37 on the 6th, 11:49–12:37 on the 7th.

    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 6th and 44 of 48 on the 7th.

    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 234 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahānavamī, Daegu, 2076: Wednesday 7 October.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Daegu, Mahānavamī 2076 falls on Wednesday 7 October. Navamī runs from 14:37 on Tue 6 Oct to 12:33 on Wed 7 Oct and covers 44 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 3 min 54 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/daegu/festivals/2076/mahanavami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 7 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daegu.

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 6thCoveredMadhyāhna 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles22:37 → 20:3312:1748 min12:160 min6 Oct
Chicago00:37 → 22:3312:1448 min12:140 min6 Oct
Jersey City01:37 → 23:3312:2048 min12:200 min6 Oct
Port of Spain01:37 → 23:3311:3048 min11:300 min6 Oct
London06:37 → 04:3312:2448 min12:240 min6 Oct
Durban07:37 → 05:3311:2048 min11:200 min6 Oct
Dubai09:37 → 07:3311:4348 min11:420 min6 Oct
Delhi11:07 → 09:0311:4548 min11:450 min6 Oct
Kolkata11:07 → 09:0311:0142 min11:000 min6 Oct
Singapore13:37 → 11:3312:290 min12:280 min7 Oct
Sydney16:37 → 14:3312:200 min12:1948 min7 Oct
Suva17:37 → 15:3311:310 min11:3048 min7 Oct
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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