Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1930

Thursday 2 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 76 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 Wednesday 1 October

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

06:13 sunrisesunset 18:02
05:4907:4909:4911:4913:4915:4917:4919:49

0 of 709 minutes covered

Day of Thursday 2 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:14 sunrisesunset 18:01
Daśamī ends 16:06:25
05:5007:5009:5011:5013:5015:5017:5019:50

592 of 707 minutes covered, the first 592

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 13:46 on Wed 1 Oct to 16:06 on Thu 2 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 04:58 on Thu 2 Oct to 07:55 on Fri 3 Oct. They are together from 04:58 on Thu 2 Oct to 16:06 on Thu 2 Oct.

    1930-10-01T20:58:01Z → 1930-10-02T08:06:25Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:13–18:02 on the 1st, 06:14–18:01 on the 2nd.

    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 709 minutes on the 1st and 592 of 707 on the 2nd.

    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 4566 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1930: Thursday 2 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1930 falls on Thursday 2 October. Daśamī runs from 13:46 on Wed 1 Oct to 16:06 on Thu 2 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 592 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1930/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 2 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 2 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 2 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 1stCoveredSunrise 2ndCoveredRuled
Los Angeles12:58 → 00:0605:47280 min05:480 min1 Oct
Chicago14:58 → 02:0605:47155 min05:480 min1 Oct
Jersey City15:58 → 03:0605:52101 min05:530 min1 Oct
Port of Spain16:58 → 04:0605:5559 min05:550 min1 Oct
London21:58 → 09:0607:000 min07:02125 min2 Oct
Durban22:58 → 10:0605:360 min05:34272 min2 Oct
Dubai00:58 → 12:0606:110 min06:11355 min2 Oct
Delhi02:28 → 13:3606:140 min06:14442 min2 Oct
Kolkata02:28 → 13:3605:280 min05:28488 min2 Oct
Singapore03:58 → 15:0605:520 min05:51555 min2 Oct
Sydney06:58 → 18:0605:340 min05:33659 min2 Oct
Suva08:58 → 20:0605:500 min05:49546 min2 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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