Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1926

Saturday 16 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 53 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 Saturday 16 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:28 sunrisesunset 17:40
Daśamī begins 07:55:38
06:0408:0410:0412:0414:0416:0418:04

584 of 672 minutes covered, the last 584

Day of Sunday 17 October

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

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

0 of 670 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 07:56 on Sat 16 Oct to 05:33 on Sun 17 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 19:55 on Fri 15 Oct to 18:33 on Sat 16 Oct. They are together from 07:56 on Sat 16 Oct to 18:33 on Sat 16 Oct.

    1926-10-15T23:55:39Z → 1926-10-16T10:32:36Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:28–17:40 on the 16th, 06:29–17:38 on the 17th.

    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 584 of 672 minutes on the 16th and 0 of 670 on the 17th.

    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 3171 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1926: Saturday 16 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1926 falls on Saturday 16 October. Daśamī runs from 07:56 on Sat 16 Oct to 05:33 on Sun 17 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 584 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1926/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 16 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 16 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 16 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 15thCoveredSunrise 16thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles15:56 → 02:3305:5884 min05:590 min15 Oct
Chicago17:56 → 04:3306:020 min06:040 min16 Oct
Jersey City18:56 → 05:3306:070 min06:080 min16 Oct
Port of Spain19:56 → 06:3305:550 min05:5537 min16 Oct
London23:56 → 10:3306:230 min06:25247 min16 Oct
Durban01:56 → 12:3305:190 min05:18434 min16 Oct
Dubai03:56 → 14:3306:170 min06:17495 min16 Oct
Delhi05:26 → 16:0306:220 min06:22580 min16 Oct
Kolkata05:26 → 16:0305:330 min05:33629 min16 Oct
Singapore06:56 → 17:3305:480 min05:48637 min16 Oct
Sydney09:56 → 20:3305:160 min05:14493 min16 Oct
Suva11:56 → 22:3305:380 min05:38371 min16 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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