Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1928

Wednesday 24 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 177 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 Tuesday 23 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

Midday of Wednesday 24 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

Daśamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Daśamī runs from 18:23 on Tue 23 Oct to 18:12 on Wed 24 Oct.

    1928-10-23T10:23:09Z → 1928-10-24T10:12:06Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 11:38–12:26 on the 23rd, 11:38–12:26 on the 24th.

    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 0 of 48 minutes on the 23rd and 48 of 48 on the 24th.

    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 10616 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1928: Wednesday 24 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1928 falls on Wednesday 24 October. Daśamī touches Śravaṇa in the day time on neither day, so madhyāhna decides. Daśamī runs from 18:23 on Tue 23 Oct to 18:12 on Wed 24 Oct and covers all of madhyāhna that midday.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1928/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 24 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 24 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 24 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 23rdCoveredMadhyāhna 24thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles02:23 → 02:1211:1348 min11:130 min23 Oct
Chicago04:23 → 04:1211:1148 min11:110 min23 Oct
Jersey City05:23 → 05:1211:1648 min11:160 min23 Oct
Port of Spain06:23 → 06:1211:2648 min11:260 min23 Oct
London10:23 → 10:1211:2148 min11:200 min23 Oct
Durban12:23 → 12:1211:170 min11:1648 min24 Oct
Dubai14:23 → 14:1211:390 min11:3948 min24 Oct
Delhi15:53 → 15:4211:410 min11:4148 min24 Oct
Kolkata15:53 → 15:4210:570 min10:5748 min24 Oct
Singapore17:23 → 17:1211:250 min11:2548 min24 Oct
Sydney20:23 → 20:1211:160 min11:1648 min24 Oct
Suva22:23 → 22:1211:270 min11:2748 min24 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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