Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1911

Tuesday 3 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 339 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 2 October

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

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:01
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

0 of 708 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 3 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:15 sunrisesunset 18:00
Daśamī ends 12:20:44
05:5107:5109:5111:5113:5115:5117:5119:51

366 of 705 minutes covered, the first 366

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 10:33 on Mon 2 Oct to 12:21 on Tue 3 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 00:07 on Tue 3 Oct to 02:11 on Wed 4 Oct. They are together from 00:07 on Tue 3 Oct to 12:21 on Tue 3 Oct.

    1911-10-02T16:07:10Z → 1911-10-03T04:20:44Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:14–18:01 on the 2nd, 06:15–18:00 on the 3rd.

    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 708 minutes on the 2nd and 366 of 705 on the 3rd.

    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 20351 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1911: Tuesday 3 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1911 falls on Tuesday 3 October. Daśamī runs from 10:33 on Mon 2 Oct to 12:21 on Tue 3 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 366 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1911/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 3 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 3 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 3 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 2ndCoveredSunrise 3rdCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:07 → 20:2105:48570 min05:480 min2 Oct
Chicago10:07 → 22:2105:48445 min05:490 min2 Oct
Jersey City11:07 → 23:2105:53391 min05:540 min2 Oct
Port of Spain12:07 → 00:2105:55349 min05:550 min2 Oct
London16:07 → 04:2106:0191 min06:030 min2 Oct
Durban18:07 → 06:2105:350 min05:3447 min3 Oct
Dubai19:48 → 08:0205:520 min05:52129 min3 Oct
Delhi21:37 → 09:5106:140 min06:15216 min3 Oct
Kolkata21:37 → 09:5105:280 min05:28262 min3 Oct
Singapore23:07 → 11:2105:520 min05:51329 min3 Oct
Sydney02:07 → 14:2105:330 min05:32529 min3 Oct
Suva04:02 → 16:1605:440 min05:43633 min3 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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