Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1912

Sunday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 44 minutes.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Sunday 20 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Monday 21 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:39  12:27 madhyāhna ends
10:5111:1511:3912:0312:2712:5113:15

0 of 48 minutes covered

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 01:46 on Sun 20 Oct to 04:14 on Mon 21 Oct.

    1912-10-19T17:45:50Z → 1912-10-20T20:13:55Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:39–12:27 on the 20th, 11:39–12:27 on the 21st.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so the rest of the rule applies. Daśamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 20th and 0 of 48 on the 21st.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 2624 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1912: Sunday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1912 falls on Sunday 20 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 01:46 on Sun 20 Oct to 04:14 on Mon 21 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1912/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 20 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.

PlaceDaśamīMadhyāhna 19thCoveredMadhyāhna 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles09:46 → 12:1411:1448 min11:1448 min19 Oct
Chicago11:46 → 14:1411:1113 min11:1148 min19 Oct
Jersey City12:46 → 15:1411:170 min11:1748 min19 Oct
Port of Spain13:46 → 16:1411:270 min11:2748 min19 Oct
London17:46 → 20:1411:210 min11:2148 min20 Oct
Durban19:46 → 22:1411:170 min11:1748 min20 Oct
Dubai21:27 → 23:5511:210 min11:2148 min20 Oct
Delhi23:16 → 01:4411:420 min11:4248 min20 Oct
Kolkata23:16 → 01:4410:580 min10:5748 min20 Oct
Singapore00:46 → 03:1411:260 min11:2648 min20 Oct
Sydney03:46 → 06:1411:170 min11:1648 min20 Oct
Suva05:41 → 08:0911:230 min11:2248 min20 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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