Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1927

Thursday 6 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 126 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 6 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:18 sunrisesunset 17:55
05:5407:5409:5411:5413:5415:5417:5419:54

697 of 697 minutes covered

Day of Friday 7 October

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

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:54
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

0 of 695 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 21:55 on Wed 5 Oct to 20:45 on Thu 6 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 04:12 on Thu 6 Oct to 03:30 on Fri 7 Oct. They are together from 04:12 on Thu 6 Oct to 20:45 on Thu 6 Oct.

    1927-10-05T20:11:50Z → 1927-10-06T12:45:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:18–17:55 on the 6th, 06:19–17:54 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 697 of 697 minutes on the 6th and 0 of 695 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 7547 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1927: Thursday 6 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1927 falls on Thursday 6 October. Daśamī runs from 21:55 on Wed 5 Oct to 20:45 on Thu 6 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 697 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1927/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 6 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 6 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 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 5thCoveredSunrise 6thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:12 → 04:4505:50321 min05:510 min5 Oct
Chicago14:12 → 06:4505:51195 min05:5253 min5 Oct
Jersey City15:12 → 07:4505:56141 min05:57108 min5 Oct
Port of Spain16:12 → 08:4505:55103 min05:55170 min6 Oct
London20:12 → 12:4506:060 min06:08397 min6 Oct
Durban22:12 → 14:4505:310 min05:30555 min6 Oct
Dubai00:12 → 16:4506:120 min06:13633 min6 Oct
Delhi01:42 → 18:1506:160 min06:16706 min6 Oct
Kolkata01:42 → 18:1505:290 min05:29711 min6 Oct
Singapore03:12 → 19:4505:510 min05:50725 min6 Oct
Sydney06:12 → 22:4505:290 min05:28708 min6 Oct
Suva08:12 → 00:4505:460 min05:46592 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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