Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1917

Thursday 25 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 238 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 Thursday 25 October

Taken. The only midday Daśamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Friday 26 October

Daśamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 11:38  12:26 madhyāhna ends
10:5011:1411:3812:0212:2612:5013:14

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 07:40 on Thu 25 Oct to 05:10 on Fri 26 Oct.

    1917-10-24T23:39:54Z → 1917-10-25T21:10:19Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 25th, 11:38–12:26 on the 26th.

    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 25th and 0 of 48 on the 26th.

    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 14293 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1917: Thursday 25 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1917 falls on Thursday 25 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 07:40 on Thu 25 Oct to 05:10 on Fri 26 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1917/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 25 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 25 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 25 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 24thCoveredMadhyāhna 25thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:40 → 13:1011:130 min11:1348 min25 Oct
Chicago17:40 → 15:1011:110 min11:1048 min25 Oct
Jersey City18:40 → 16:1011:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Port of Spain19:40 → 17:1011:260 min11:2648 min25 Oct
London23:40 → 21:1011:200 min11:2048 min25 Oct
Durban01:40 → 23:1011:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Dubai03:21 → 00:5111:200 min11:2048 min25 Oct
Delhi05:10 → 02:4011:410 min11:4148 min25 Oct
Kolkata05:10 → 02:4010:570 min10:5748 min25 Oct
Singapore06:40 → 04:1011:250 min11:2548 min25 Oct
Sydney09:40 → 07:1011:160 min11:1648 min25 Oct
Suva11:40 → 09:1011:270 min11:2735 min25 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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