Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1937

Thursday 14 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 97 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 Thursday 14 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:26 sunrisesunset 17:42
Daśamī begins 13:58:06
06:0208:0210:0212:0214:0216:0218:02

224 of 676 minutes covered, the last 224

Day of Friday 15 October

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

06:27 sunrisesunset 17:41
06:0308:0310:0312:0314:0316:0318:03

0 of 674 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 13:58 on Thu 14 Oct to 14:27 on Fri 15 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 03:26 on Thu 14 Oct to 04:50 on Fri 15 Oct. They are together from 13:58 on Thu 14 Oct to 04:50 on Fri 15 Oct.

    1937-10-14T05:58:06Z → 1937-10-14T20:50:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:26–17:42 on the 14th, 06:27–17:41 on the 15th.

    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 224 of 676 minutes on the 14th and 0 of 674 on the 15th.

    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 5814 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1937: Thursday 14 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1937 falls on Thursday 14 October. Daśamī runs from 13:58 on Thu 14 Oct to 14:27 on Fri 15 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 224 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1937/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 14 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 14 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 14 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 14thCoveredSunrise 15thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles21:58 → 12:5005:57413 min05:580 min14 Oct
Chicago23:58 → 14:5006:02528 min06:030 min14 Oct
Jersey City00:58 → 15:5006:06584 min06:070 min14 Oct
Port of Spain01:58 → 16:5005:55655 min05:550 min14 Oct
London05:58 → 20:5006:22648 min06:240 min14 Oct
Durban07:58 → 22:5005:20606 min05:190 min14 Oct
Dubai09:58 → 00:5006:16475 min06:170 min14 Oct
Delhi11:28 → 02:2006:21385 min06:220 min14 Oct
Kolkata11:28 → 02:2005:33344 min05:330 min14 Oct
Singapore13:18 → 04:1006:08295 min06:080 min14 Oct
Sydney15:58 → 06:5005:16129 min05:1595 min14 Oct
Suva17:58 → 08:5005:398 min05:38192 min15 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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