Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1907

Wednesday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 203 minutes.

Decide it for

38°52′ N 115°28′ E · Asia/Shanghai · GeoNames 1816971

The two days

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

Day of Tuesday 15 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 676 minutes covered

Day of Wednesday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:40
Śravaṇa ends 14:16:52
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

470 of 673 minutes covered, the first 470

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 02:59 on Wed 16 Oct to 00:59 on Thu 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:35 on Tue 15 Oct to 14:17 on Wed 16 Oct. They are together from 02:59 on Wed 16 Oct to 14:17 on Wed 16 Oct.

    1907-10-15T18:59:23Z → 1907-10-16T06:16:53Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:42 on the 15th, 06:27–17:40 on the 16th.

    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 676 minutes on the 15th and 470 of 673 on the 16th.

    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 12206 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1907: Wednesday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1907 falls on Wednesday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 02:59 on Wed 16 Oct to 00:59 on Thu 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 470 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1907/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles10:59 → 22:1705:58380 min05:580 min15 Oct
Chicago12:59 → 00:1706:02251 min06:030 min15 Oct
Jersey City13:59 → 01:1706:07198 min06:080 min15 Oct
Port of Spain14:59 → 02:1705:55170 min05:550 min15 Oct
London18:59 → 06:1706:230 min06:240 min16 Oct
Durban20:59 → 08:1705:200 min05:19178 min16 Oct
Dubai22:40 → 09:5805:580 min05:58240 min16 Oct
Delhi00:29 → 11:4706:210 min06:22325 min16 Oct
Kolkata00:29 → 11:4705:330 min05:33374 min16 Oct
Singapore01:59 → 13:1705:480 min05:48449 min16 Oct
Sydney04:59 → 16:1705:160 min05:15662 min16 Oct
Suva06:54 → 18:1205:340 min05:33667 min16 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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