Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1916

Friday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 103 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 Friday 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:54
Śravaṇa begins 08:01:44
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

592 of 696 minutes covered, the last 592

Day of Saturday 7 October

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

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:52
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

0 of 693 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 03:52 on Fri 6 Oct to 01:37 on Sat 7 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 08:02 on Fri 6 Oct to 06:30 on Sat 7 Oct. They are together from 08:02 on Fri 6 Oct to 01:37 on Sat 7 Oct.

    1916-10-06T00:01:44Z → 1916-10-06T17:37:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:18–17:54 on the 6th, 06:19–17:52 on the 7th.

    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 592 of 696 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 693 on the 7th.

    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 6209 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1916: Friday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1916 falls on Friday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 03:52 on Fri 6 Oct to 01:37 on Sat 7 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 592 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1916/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingFri 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionFri 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileFri 6 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 6thCoveredSunrise 7thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles16:02 → 09:3705:51226 min05:520 min6 Oct
Chicago18:02 → 11:3705:53344 min05:540 min6 Oct
Jersey City19:02 → 12:3705:58399 min05:590 min6 Oct
Port of Spain20:02 → 13:3705:55462 min05:550 min6 Oct
London00:02 → 17:3706:09679 min06:110 min6 Oct
Durban02:02 → 19:3705:29750 min05:280 min6 Oct
Dubai03:43 → 21:1805:54708 min05:540 min6 Oct
Delhi05:32 → 23:0706:17705 min06:170 min6 Oct
Kolkata05:32 → 23:0705:30708 min05:300 min6 Oct
Singapore07:02 → 00:3705:50654 min05:500 min6 Oct
Sydney10:02 → 03:3705:27479 min05:250 min6 Oct
Suva12:02 → 05:3705:45363 min05:440 min6 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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