Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 1997

Sunday 9 November

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 307 minutes.

Decide it for

46°35′ N 125°00′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 2037860

The two forenoons

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

Forenoon of Saturday 8 November

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:32 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:46
06:0806:5607:4408:3209:2010:08

0 of 194 minutes covered

Forenoon of Sunday 9 November

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:33 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:47
06:0906:5707:4508:3309:2110:09

194 of 194 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 16:53 on Sat 8 Nov to 14:54 on Sun 9 Nov.

    1997-11-08T08:52:50Z → 1997-11-09T06:54:00Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:32–09:46 on the 8th, 06:33–09:47 on the 9th.

    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 194 minutes on the 8th and 194 of 194 on the 9th.

    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 18435 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Daqing, 1997: Sunday 9 November.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 1997 falls on Sunday 9 November. Navamī runs from 16:53 on Sat 8 Nov to 14:54 on Sun 9 Nov and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/1997/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 9 Nov
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 9 Nov
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 9 Nov
No institution has a recorded ruling for Daqing.

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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:53 → 22:5406:19211 min06:200 min8 Nov
Chicago02:53 → 00:5406:32201 min06:330 min8 Nov
Jersey City03:53 → 01:5406:35203 min06:370 min8 Nov
Port of Spain04:53 → 02:5405:59234 min06:000 min8 Nov
London08:53 → 06:5407:0779 min07:080 min8 Nov
Durban10:53 → 08:5404:570 min04:56238 min9 Nov
Dubai12:53 → 10:5406:310 min06:31221 min9 Nov
Delhi14:23 → 12:2406:380 min06:39217 min9 Nov
Kolkata14:23 → 12:2405:450 min05:46223 min9 Nov
Singapore16:53 → 14:5406:470 min06:47241 min9 Nov
Sydney19:53 → 17:5405:490 min05:48274 min9 Nov
Suva20:53 → 18:5405:240 min05:24257 min9 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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