Day of Saturday 7 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
Śravaṇa begins 11:21:11
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55
392 of 694 minutes covered, the last 392
Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1905
Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.
A tick is five ghaṭīs, two hours. The day time is sunrise to sunset.
Day of Saturday 7 October
Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.
392 of 694 minutes covered, the last 392
Day of Sunday 8 October
Qualifies with 177 of 692 minutes. Not taken.
177 of 692 minutes covered, the first 177
Aṅga
Daśamī runs from 08:37 on Sat 7 Oct to 09:17 on Sun 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 11:21 on Sat 7 Oct to 12:42 on Sun 8 Oct. They are together from 11:21 on Sat 7 Oct to 09:17 on Sun 8 Oct.
1905-10-07T03:21:11Z → 1905-10-08T01:16:53Z
Kāla
The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:53 on the 7th, 06:20–17:51 on the 8th.
daytime: sunrise-to-sunset · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′
Rule
Where Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time, that day is taken. Together they cover 392 of 694 minutes on the 7th and 177 of 692 on the 8th.
Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104
Tie-break
Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.
priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 10622 s
Ruling
Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1905: Saturday 7 October.
confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)
In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1905 falls on Saturday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 08:37 on Sat 7 Oct to 09:17 on Sun 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 392 minutes. They are together in the day time on the next day too, for 177 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.
| Authority | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ahargaṇa, pac-rp | This ruling | Sat 7 Oct |
| Ahargaṇa, classical | Disc centre, no refraction | Sat 7 Oct |
| compat-drikpanchang | Comparison profile | Sat 7 Oct |
| No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding. | ||
Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.
/rules/vijaya-dashami · ruleset 2026.3-draft
“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.
Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.
| Place | Daśamī with Śravaṇa | Sunrise 7th | Covered | Sunrise 8th | Covered | Ruled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 19:21 → 17:17 | 05:52 | 685 min | 05:53 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Chicago | 21:21 → 19:17 | 05:54 | 689 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Jersey City | 22:21 → 20:17 | 05:59 | 691 min | 06:00 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Port of Spain | 23:21 → 21:17 | 05:55 | 718 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| London | 03:21 → 01:17 | 06:10 | 676 min | 06:12 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Durban | 05:21 → 03:17 | 05:28 | 752 min | 05:27 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Dubai | 07:02 → 04:58 | 05:54 | 639 min | 05:55 | 0 min | 7 Oct |
| Delhi | 08:42 → 06:38 | 06:08 | 550 min | 06:09 | 29 min | 7 Oct |
| Kolkata | 08:42 → 06:38 | 05:21 | 508 min | 05:21 | 77 min | 7 Oct |
| Singapore | 10:21 → 08:17 | 05:50 | 454 min | 05:50 | 147 min | 7 Oct |
| Sydney | 13:21 → 11:17 | 05:26 | 280 min | 05:25 | 352 min | 8 Oct |
| Suva | 15:16 → 13:12 | 05:40 | 163 min | 05:39 | 453 min | 8 Oct |