Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1934

Wednesday 17 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 207 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 17 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:29 sunrisesunset 17:38
Daśamī begins 12:22:11
06:0508:0510:0512:0514:0516:0518:05

316 of 670 minutes covered, the last 316

Day of Thursday 18 October

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

06:30 sunrisesunset 17:37
06:0608:0610:0612:0614:0616:0618:06

0 of 667 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 12:22 on Wed 17 Oct to 10:06 on Thu 18 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 22:33 on Tue 16 Oct to 21:06 on Wed 17 Oct. They are together from 12:22 on Wed 17 Oct to 21:06 on Wed 17 Oct.

    1934-10-17T04:22:12Z → 1934-10-17T13:05:42Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:29–17:38 on the 17th, 06:30–17:37 on the 18th.

    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 316 of 670 minutes on the 17th and 0 of 667 on the 18th.

    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 12449 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1934: Wednesday 17 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1934 falls on Wednesday 17 October. Daśamī runs from 12:22 on Wed 17 Oct to 10:06 on Thu 18 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 316 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1934/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingWed 17 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionWed 17 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileWed 17 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 17thCoveredSunrise 18thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles20:22 → 05:0606:000 min06:000 min17 Oct
Chicago22:22 → 07:0606:0561 min06:060 min17 Oct
Jersey City23:22 → 08:0606:09116 min06:100 min17 Oct
Port of Spain00:22 → 09:0605:55190 min05:550 min17 Oct
London04:22 → 13:0606:27399 min06:290 min17 Oct
Durban06:22 → 15:0605:17524 min05:160 min17 Oct
Dubai08:22 → 17:0606:18524 min06:180 min17 Oct
Delhi09:52 → 18:3606:23478 min06:230 min17 Oct
Kolkata09:52 → 18:3605:34438 min05:340 min17 Oct
Singapore11:42 → 20:2606:08390 min06:080 min17 Oct
Sydney14:22 → 23:0605:13227 min05:120 min17 Oct
Suva16:22 → 01:0605:37105 min05:360 min17 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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