Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1910

Thursday 13 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 185 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 Thursday 13 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:25 sunrisesunset 17:44
Daśamī begins 10:44:50
06:0108:0110:0112:0114:0116:0118:01

419 of 680 minutes covered, the last 419

Day of Friday 14 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:43
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 677 minutes covered

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 10:45 on Thu 13 Oct to 10:26 on Fri 14 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 02:46 on Thu 13 Oct to 03:21 on Fri 14 Oct. They are together from 10:45 on Thu 13 Oct to 03:21 on Fri 14 Oct.

    1910-10-13T02:44:51Z → 1910-10-13T19:20:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:25–17:44 on the 13th, 06:26–17:43 on the 14th.

    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 419 of 680 minutes on the 13th and 0 of 677 on the 14th.

    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 11100 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1910: Thursday 13 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1910 falls on Thursday 13 October. Daśamī runs from 10:45 on Thu 13 Oct to 10:26 on Fri 14 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 419 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1910/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 13 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 13 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 13 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 13thCoveredSunrise 14thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles18:45 → 11:2105:56324 min05:570 min13 Oct
Chicago20:45 → 13:2106:00440 min06:010 min13 Oct
Jersey City21:45 → 14:2106:05496 min06:060 min13 Oct
Port of Spain22:45 → 15:2105:55565 min05:550 min13 Oct
London02:45 → 19:2106:20653 min06:220 min13 Oct
Durban04:45 → 21:2105:22762 min05:210 min13 Oct
Dubai06:26 → 23:0205:57670 min05:570 min13 Oct
Delhi08:15 → 00:5106:20580 min06:210 min13 Oct
Kolkata08:15 → 00:5105:32539 min05:320 min13 Oct
Singapore09:45 → 02:2105:49489 min05:490 min13 Oct
Sydney12:45 → 05:2105:18321 min05:173 min13 Oct
Suva14:40 → 07:1605:35201 min05:34101 min13 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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