Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2025

Friday 31 October

Determinatein Suva, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 412 minutes.

Decide it for

18°08′ S 178°26′ E · Pacific/Fiji · GeoNames 2198148

The two forenoons

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

Forenoon of Thursday 30 October

Navamī is absent from pūrvāhṇa. Not taken.

05:28 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:43
05:0405:5206:4007:2808:1609:0409:52

0 of 255 minutes covered

Forenoon of Friday 31 October

Taken. The only forenoon Navamī reaches.

05:28 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 09:43
05:0405:5206:4007:2808:1609:0409:52

255 of 255 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 16:37 on Thu 30 Oct to 16:34 on Fri 31 Oct.

    2025-10-30T04:37:02Z → 2025-10-31T04:34:11Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Pūrvāhṇa is first 5 of 15 day muhūrtas: 05:28–09:43 on the 30th, 05:28–09:43 on the 31st.

    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 255 minutes on the 30th and 255 of 255 on the 31st.

    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 24693 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Suva, 2025: Friday 31 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Suva, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2025 falls on Friday 31 October. Navamī runs from 16:37 on Thu 30 Oct to 16:34 on Fri 31 Oct and covers all of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon.

ahargana.org/suva/festivals/2025/akshaya-navami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 31 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 31 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 31 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Suva.

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 30thCoveredSunrise 31stCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:37 → 21:3407:11217 min07:120 min30 Oct
Chicago23:37 → 23:3407:21208 min07:230 min30 Oct
Jersey City00:37 → 00:3407:25210 min07:260 min30 Oct
Port of Spain00:37 → 00:3405:57235 min05:570 min30 Oct
London04:37 → 04:3406:51195 min06:530 min30 Oct
Durban06:37 → 06:3405:03171 min05:0292 min30 Oct
Dubai08:37 → 08:3406:2593 min06:26128 min31 Oct
Delhi10:07 → 10:0406:327 min06:33212 min31 Oct
Kolkata10:07 → 10:0405:400 min05:41226 min31 Oct
Singapore12:37 → 12:3406:460 min06:46241 min31 Oct
Sydney15:37 → 15:3405:570 min05:56269 min31 Oct
Suva16:37 → 16:3405:280 min05:28255 min31 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