Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1935

Monday 7 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 46 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 7 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:19 sunrisesunset 17:53
Śravaṇa begins 11:25:36
05:5507:5509:5511:5513:5515:5517:5519:55

388 of 695 minutes covered, the last 388

Day of Tuesday 8 October

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

06:20 sunrisesunset 17:52
05:5607:5609:5611:5613:5615:5617:5619:56

0 of 692 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 07:41 on Mon 7 Oct to 05:33 on Tue 8 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 11:26 on Mon 7 Oct to 09:55 on Tue 8 Oct. They are together from 11:26 on Mon 7 Oct to 05:33 on Tue 8 Oct.

    1935-10-07T03:25:37Z → 1935-10-07T21:33:18Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:19–17:53 on the 7th, 06:20–17:52 on the 8th.

    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 388 of 695 minutes on the 7th and 0 of 692 on the 8th.

    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 2778 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1935: Monday 7 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1935 falls on Monday 7 October. Daśamī runs from 07:41 on Mon 7 Oct to 05:33 on Tue 8 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 388 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1935/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingMon 7 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionMon 7 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileMon 7 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 7thCoveredSunrise 8thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:26 → 13:3305:52462 min05:520 min7 Oct
Chicago21:26 → 15:3305:53580 min05:540 min7 Oct
Jersey City22:26 → 16:3305:58635 min05:590 min7 Oct
Port of Spain23:26 → 17:3305:55698 min05:550 min7 Oct
London03:26 → 21:3306:10677 min06:110 min7 Oct
Durban05:26 → 23:3305:29751 min05:270 min7 Oct
Dubai07:26 → 01:3306:13635 min06:130 min7 Oct
Delhi08:56 → 03:0306:17546 min06:170 min7 Oct
Kolkata08:56 → 03:0305:30504 min05:300 min7 Oct
Singapore10:46 → 04:5306:10450 min06:100 min7 Oct
Sydney13:26 → 07:3305:26275 min05:25128 min7 Oct
Suva15:26 → 09:3305:45159 min05:44229 min8 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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