Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1932

Sunday 9 October

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Both days qualify and the rule does not say which to take. Say “contested”.

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 8 October

Qualifies with 170 of 690 minutes. Not taken.

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:51
Śravaṇa begins 15:01:13
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

170 of 690 minutes covered, the last 170

Day of Sunday 9 October

Taken. Both days qualify; the rule is silent, and this one is covered longer.

06:21 sunrisesunset 17:49
Daśamī ends 14:38:44
05:5707:5709:5711:5713:5715:5717:5719:57

497 of 688 minutes covered, the first 497

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 14:46 on Sat 8 Oct to 14:39 on Sun 9 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 15:01 on Sat 8 Oct to 15:34 on Sun 9 Oct. They are together from 15:01 on Sat 8 Oct to 14:39 on Sun 9 Oct.

    1932-10-08T07:01:14Z → 1932-10-09T06:38:45Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:20–17:51 on the 8th, 06:21–17:49 on the 9th.

    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 170 of 690 minutes on the 8th and 497 of 688 on the 9th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 104

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Both days qualify and the rule marks neither. The one covered longer is ruled, as a boundary.

    priority: unstated → greater-coverage · margin 10173 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1932: Sunday 9 October.

    confidence: boundary (tie-break-unstated)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1932 falls on Sunday 9 October. Daśamī runs from 14:46 on Sat 8 Oct to 14:39 on Sun 9 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 497 minutes. They are together in the day time on the previous day too, for 170 minutes; the rule does not say which to take, and the day they share longer is ruled: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1932/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSun 9 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSun 9 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSun 9 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 8thCoveredSunrise 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles23:01 → 22:3905:53695 min05:540 min8 Oct
Chicago01:01 → 00:3905:55685 min05:560 min8 Oct
Jersey City02:01 → 01:3906:00687 min06:010 min8 Oct
Port of Spain03:01 → 02:3905:55717 min05:550 min8 Oct
London07:01 → 06:3906:13622 min06:1425 min8 Oct
Durban09:01 → 08:3905:27540 min05:25193 min8 Oct
Dubai11:01 → 10:3906:14417 min06:14264 min8 Oct
Delhi12:31 → 12:0906:18328 min06:18350 min9 Oct
Kolkata12:31 → 12:0905:30286 min05:31398 min9 Oct
Singapore14:01 → 13:3905:50234 min05:49469 min9 Oct
Sydney17:01 → 16:3905:2461 min05:23676 min9 Oct
Suva19:01 → 18:3905:430 min05:43743 min9 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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