Ruling · Mahānavamī · 2033

Monday 3 October

Boundaryin Daqing, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 1 min 10 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 Sunday 2 October

Navamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:05  11:53 madhyāhna ends
Navamī begins 12:30:49
10:1710:4111:0511:2911:5312:1712:41

0 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 3 October

Taken. The only midday Navamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:05  11:53 madhyāhna ends
Navamī ends 11:51:29
10:1710:4111:0511:2911:5312:1712:41

47 of 48 minutes covered, the first 47

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 12:31 on Sun 2 Oct to 11:51 on Mon 3 Oct.

    2033-10-02T04:30:49Z → 2033-10-03T03:51:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:05–11:53 on the 2nd, 11:05–11:53 on the 3rd.

    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 2nd and 47 of 48 on the 3rd.

    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 70 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Mahānavamī, Daqing, 2033: Monday 3 October.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Daqing, Mahānavamī 2033 falls on Monday 3 October. Navamī runs from 12:31 on Sun 2 Oct to 11:51 on Mon 3 Oct and covers 47 of 48 minutes of madhyāhna that midday. It is 1 min 10 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/daqing/festivals/2033/mahanavami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 2 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/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 2ndCoveredMadhyāhna 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:31 → 20:5112:1848 min12:180 min2 Oct
Chicago23:31 → 22:5112:1548 min12:150 min2 Oct
Jersey City00:31 → 23:5112:2148 min12:210 min2 Oct
Port of Spain00:31 → 23:5111:3148 min11:310 min2 Oct
London05:31 → 04:5112:2548 min12:250 min2 Oct
Durban06:31 → 05:5111:2148 min11:210 min2 Oct
Dubai08:31 → 07:5111:4448 min11:440 min2 Oct
Delhi10:01 → 09:2111:4648 min11:460 min2 Oct
Kolkata10:01 → 09:2111:0248 min11:010 min2 Oct
Singapore12:31 → 11:5112:3047 min12:300 min2 Oct
Sydney15:31 → 14:5112:210 min12:2148 min3 Oct
Suva16:31 → 15:5111:320 min11:3248 min3 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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