Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2017

Sunday 29 October

Determinatein Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 568 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 Sunday 29 October

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

06:17 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:41
05:5306:4107:2908:1709:0509:53

204 of 204 minutes covered

Forenoon of Monday 30 October

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

06:19 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:42
05:5506:4307:3108:1909:0709:55

0 of 203 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 19:21 on Sat 28 Oct to 20:51 on Sun 29 Oct.

    2017-10-28T11:21:21Z → 2017-10-29T12:50:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 06:17–09:41 on the 29th, 06:19–09:42 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 204 of 204 minutes on the 29th and 0 of 203 on the 30th.

    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 34073 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Daqing, 2017: Sunday 29 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Daqing, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2017 falls on Sunday 29 October. Navamī runs from 19:21 on Sat 28 Oct to 20:51 on Sun 29 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2017/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 29 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 29 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 29 Oct
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 28thCoveredSunrise 29thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles04:21 → 05:5107:10218 min07:100 min28 Oct
Chicago06:21 → 07:5107:19210 min07:2031 min28 Oct
Jersey City07:21 → 08:5107:23211 min07:2487 min28 Oct
Port of Spain07:21 → 08:5105:57151 min05:57174 min29 Oct
London12:21 → 12:5107:480 min06:49196 min29 Oct
Durban13:21 → 14:5105:050 min05:04264 min29 Oct
Dubai15:21 → 16:5106:240 min06:25225 min29 Oct
Delhi16:51 → 18:2106:300 min06:31222 min29 Oct
Kolkata16:51 → 18:2105:390 min05:40227 min29 Oct
Singapore19:21 → 20:5106:460 min06:46241 min29 Oct
Sydney22:21 → 23:5105:590 min05:58267 min29 Oct
Suva23:21 → 00:5105:290 min05:29254 min29 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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