Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1904

Tuesday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 117 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 Monday 17 October

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

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

0 of 669 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 18 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:36
Śravaṇa ends 12:12:56
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

343 of 666 minutes covered, the first 343

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 04:33 on Tue 18 Oct to 06:57 on Wed 19 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 09:38 on Mon 17 Oct to 12:13 on Tue 18 Oct. They are together from 04:33 on Tue 18 Oct to 12:13 on Tue 18 Oct.

    1904-10-17T20:33:12Z → 1904-10-18T04:12:56Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:38 on the 17th, 06:30–17:36 on the 18th.

    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 669 minutes on the 17th and 343 of 666 on the 18th.

    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 7006 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1904: Tuesday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1904 falls on Tuesday 18 October. Daśamī runs from 04:33 on Tue 18 Oct to 06:57 on Wed 19 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 343 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1904/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 18 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:33 → 20:1306:00283 min06:010 min17 Oct
Chicago14:33 → 22:1306:05153 min06:060 min17 Oct
Jersey City15:33 → 23:1306:10100 min06:110 min17 Oct
Port of Spain16:33 → 00:1305:5574 min05:550 min17 Oct
London20:33 → 04:1306:270 min06:290 min18 Oct
Durban22:33 → 06:1305:170 min05:1657 min18 Oct
Dubai00:14 → 07:5405:590 min05:59115 min18 Oct
Delhi01:54 → 09:3406:140 min06:15199 min18 Oct
Kolkata01:54 → 09:3405:250 min05:25249 min18 Oct
Singapore03:28 → 11:0805:430 min05:43325 min18 Oct
Sydney06:33 → 14:1305:130 min05:11460 min18 Oct
Suva08:28 → 16:0805:320 min05:31460 min18 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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