Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1931

Tuesday 20 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 27 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 Monday 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 665 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 20 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:31 sunrisesunset 17:34
Daśamī begins 06:58:22Śravaṇa ends 12:10:01
06:0708:0710:0712:0714:0716:0718:07

312 of 663 minutes covered, the first 312

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 06:58 on Tue 20 Oct to 08:52 on Wed 21 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 10:13 on Mon 19 Oct to 12:10 on Tue 20 Oct. They are together from 06:58 on Tue 20 Oct to 12:10 on Tue 20 Oct.

    1931-10-19T22:58:23Z → 1931-10-20T04:10:02Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:30–17:36 on the 19th, 06:31–17:34 on the 20th.

    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 665 minutes on the 19th and 312 of 663 on the 20th.

    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 1615 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1931: Tuesday 20 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1931 falls on Tuesday 20 October. Daśamī runs from 06:58 on Tue 20 Oct to 08:52 on Wed 21 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 312 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1931/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 20 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 20 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 20 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 19thCoveredSunrise 20thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles14:58 → 20:1006:01136 min06:020 min19 Oct
Chicago16:58 → 22:1006:076 min06:080 min19 Oct
Jersey City17:58 → 23:1006:110 min06:120 min20 Oct
Port of Spain18:58 → 00:1005:550 min05:560 min20 Oct
London22:58 → 04:1006:300 min06:320 min20 Oct
Durban00:58 → 06:1005:150 min05:1456 min20 Oct
Dubai02:58 → 08:1006:190 min06:19111 min20 Oct
Delhi04:28 → 09:4006:240 min06:24196 min20 Oct
Kolkata04:28 → 09:4005:340 min05:35245 min20 Oct
Singapore05:58 → 11:1005:480 min05:47312 min20 Oct
Sydney08:58 → 14:1005:110 min05:10312 min20 Oct
Suva10:58 → 16:1005:360 min05:35312 min20 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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