Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1923

Thursday 18 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 69 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 Thursday 18 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:37
Daśamī begins 16:28:04
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

69 of 668 minutes covered, the last 69

Day of Friday 19 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:36
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 666 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 16:28 on Thu 18 Oct to 17:02 on Fri 19 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 23:35 on Wed 17 Oct to 00:19 on Fri 19 Oct. They are together from 16:28 on Thu 18 Oct to 00:19 on Fri 19 Oct.

    1923-10-18T08:28:04Z → 1923-10-18T16:18:41Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:37 on the 18th, 06:30–17:36 on the 19th.

    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 69 of 668 minutes on the 18th and 0 of 666 on the 19th.

    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 4152 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1923: Thursday 18 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1923 falls on Thursday 18 October. Daśamī runs from 16:28 on Thu 18 Oct to 17:02 on Fri 19 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 69 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1923/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 18 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 18 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 18 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 18thCoveredSunrise 19thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles00:28 → 08:1906:00139 min06:010 min18 Oct
Chicago02:28 → 10:1906:06253 min06:070 min18 Oct
Jersey City03:28 → 11:1906:10309 min06:110 min18 Oct
Port of Spain04:28 → 12:1905:55383 min05:550 min18 Oct
London08:28 → 16:1906:28471 min06:300 min18 Oct
Durban10:28 → 18:1905:16459 min05:150 min18 Oct
Dubai12:28 → 20:1906:18322 min06:190 min18 Oct
Delhi13:58 → 21:4906:23231 min06:240 min18 Oct
Kolkata13:58 → 21:4905:34192 min05:340 min18 Oct
Singapore15:28 → 23:1905:48144 min05:480 min18 Oct
Sydney18:28 → 02:1905:120 min05:110 min19 Oct
Suva20:28 → 04:1905:370 min05:360 min19 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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