Ruling · Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) · 2025

Friday 31 October

Boundaryin Ujjain, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both forenoons qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

23°11′ N 75°47′ E · Asia/Kolkata · GeoNames 1253914

The two forenoons

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

Forenoon of Thursday 30 October

Qualifies with 10 of 226 minutes. Not taken.

06:31 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:17
Navamī begins 10:07:02
06:0706:5507:4308:3109:1910:07

10 of 226 minutes covered, the last 10

Forenoon of Friday 31 October

Taken. Both forenoons qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.

06:32 sunrisepūrvāhṇa ends 10:18
Navamī ends 10:04:10
06:0806:5607:4408:3209:2010:08

212 of 226 minutes covered, the first 212

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

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Navamī runs from 10:07 on Thu 30 Oct to 10:04 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: 06:31–10:17 on the 30th, 06:32–10:18 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 10 of 226 minutes on the 30th and 212 of 226 on the 31st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both forenoons qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

    priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 619 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Akṣaya Navamī, Ujjain, 2025: Friday 31 October.

    confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Ujjain, Akṣaya Navamī (Amla Navami) 2025 falls on Friday 31 October. Navamī runs from 10:07 on Thu 30 Oct to 10:04 on Fri 31 Oct and covers 212 of 226 minutes of pūrvāhṇa that forenoon. It also reaches the previous forenoon for 10 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the one covered longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/ujjain/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 Ujjain.

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