Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1918

Tuesday 15 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 275 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 14 October

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

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:43
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

0 of 677 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 15 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
Śravaṇa ends 13:06:28
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

400 of 675 minutes covered, the first 400

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 23:58 on Mon 14 Oct to 22:16 on Tue 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 13:46 on Mon 14 Oct to 13:06 on Tue 15 Oct. They are together from 23:58 on Mon 14 Oct to 13:06 on Tue 15 Oct.

    1918-10-14T15:57:56Z → 1918-10-15T05:06:29Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:43 on the 14th, 06:27–17:41 on the 15th.

    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 677 minutes on the 14th and 400 of 675 on the 15th.

    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 16488 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1918: Tuesday 15 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1918 falls on Tuesday 15 October. Daśamī runs from 23:58 on Mon 14 Oct to 22:16 on Tue 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 400 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1918/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 15 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 15 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 15 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles08:58 → 22:0606:57563 min06:580 min14 Oct
Chicago10:58 → 00:0607:01434 min07:020 min14 Oct
Jersey City11:58 → 01:0607:06380 min07:070 min14 Oct
Port of Spain11:58 → 01:0605:55351 min05:550 min14 Oct
London15:58 → 05:0606:2273 min06:230 min14 Oct
Durban17:58 → 07:0605:206 min05:19107 min15 Oct
Dubai19:39 → 08:4705:570 min05:58170 min15 Oct
Delhi21:28 → 10:3606:210 min06:22255 min15 Oct
Kolkata21:28 → 10:3605:320 min05:33304 min15 Oct
Singapore22:58 → 12:0605:480 min05:48378 min15 Oct
Sydney01:58 → 15:0605:170 min05:16591 min15 Oct
Suva03:58 → 17:0605:390 min05:39688 min15 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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