Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1900

Thursday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 227 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two days

A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.

Day of Wednesday 3 October

Daśamī with Śravaṇa is absent from the day time. Not taken.

06:20 sunrisesunset 18:04
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

0 of 704 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:21 sunrisesunset 18:02
Daśamī ends 14:15:39
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

474 of 701 minutes covered, the first 474

Daśamī and Śravaṇa togetherThe day time, the window the rule readsThe instant they come together or part

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 16:03 on Wed 3 Oct to 14:15 on Thu 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 00:26 on Thu 4 Oct to 23:05 on Thu 4 Oct. They are together from 00:26 on Thu 4 Oct to 14:15 on Thu 4 Oct.

    1900-10-03T16:21:05Z → 1900-10-04T06:09:57Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–18:04 on the 3rd, 06:21–18:02 on the 4th.

    daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 0 of 704 minutes on the 3rd and 474 of 701 on the 4th.

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

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one day qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 13642 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1900: Thursday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1900 falls on Thursday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 16:03 on Wed 3 Oct to 14:15 on Thu 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 474 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1900/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 4 Oct
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Āśvina, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Daśamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
First
With Śravaṇa in the day time

“S 10 Vijaya dasami (In Bengal it is observed as paraviddha, covering one muhurta from sunrise. In other places, if it touches Sravana naksatra in the day time it is observed on that day), Sarasvati visarjana (to be observed in naksatra Sravana), Dasahara.” 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.

PlaceDaśamī with ŚravaṇaSunrise 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:21 → 22:1005:49553 min05:500 min3 Oct
Chicago10:21 → 00:1005:49428 min05:510 min3 Oct
Jersey City11:21 → 01:1005:55374 min05:560 min3 Oct
Port of Spain12:21 → 02:1005:55334 min05:550 min3 Oct
London16:21 → 06:1006:0473 min06:054 min3 Oct
Durban17:51 → 07:4005:030 min05:02158 min4 Oct
Dubai20:02 → 09:5105:530 min05:53238 min4 Oct
Delhi21:42 → 11:3106:060 min06:06325 min4 Oct
Kolkata21:42 → 11:3105:200 min05:20371 min4 Oct
Singapore23:16 → 13:0505:460 min05:46439 min4 Oct
Sydney02:21 → 16:1005:310 min05:30640 min4 Oct
Suva04:16 → 18:0505:430 min05:42737 min4 Oct
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vijaya-dashami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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