Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1915

Sunday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 9 min 16 s.

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 Sunday 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:39
Daśamī begins 07:44:29Śravaṇa ends 17:29:31
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

585 of 670 minutes covered, the first 585

Day of Monday 18 October

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

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:37
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

0 of 668 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 07:44 on Sun 17 Oct to 06:51 on Mon 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 17:56 on Sat 16 Oct to 17:30 on Sun 17 Oct. They are together from 07:44 on Sun 17 Oct to 17:30 on Sun 17 Oct.

    1915-10-16T23:44:30Z → 1915-10-17T09:29:31Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:28–17:39 on the 17th, 06:29–17:37 on the 18th.

    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 585 of 670 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 668 on the 18th.

    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 556 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1915: Sunday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1915 falls on Sunday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 07:44 on Sun 17 Oct to 06:51 on Mon 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 585 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1915/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 17 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 16thCoveredSunrise 17thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:44 → 01:3005:5894 min05:590 min16 Oct
Chicago17:44 → 03:3006:030 min06:040 min17 Oct
Jersey City18:44 → 04:3006:080 min06:090 min17 Oct
Port of Spain19:44 → 05:3005:550 min05:550 min17 Oct
London23:44 → 09:3006:250 min06:26183 min17 Oct
Durban01:44 → 11:3005:190 min05:17372 min17 Oct
Dubai03:25 → 13:1105:580 min05:59432 min17 Oct
Delhi05:14 → 15:0006:220 min06:23517 min17 Oct
Kolkata05:14 → 15:0005:330 min05:34566 min17 Oct
Singapore06:44 → 16:3005:480 min05:48585 min17 Oct
Sydney09:44 → 19:3005:150 min05:14504 min17 Oct
Suva11:39 → 21:2505:330 min05:32383 min17 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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