Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1938

Tuesday 4 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 255 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 3 October

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

06:15 sunrisesunset 17:59
05:5107:5109:5111:5113:5115:5117:5119:51

0 of 704 minutes covered

Day of Tuesday 4 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

06:16 sunrisesunset 17:58
Daśamī ends 13:42:14
05:5207:5209:5211:5213:5215:5217:5219:52

446 of 702 minutes covered, the first 446

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 11:27 on Mon 3 Oct to 13:42 on Tue 4 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 23:00 on Mon 3 Oct to 01:38 on Wed 5 Oct. They are together from 23:00 on Mon 3 Oct to 13:42 on Tue 4 Oct.

    1938-10-03T15:00:21Z → 1938-10-04T05:42:14Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 06:15–17:59 on the 3rd, 06:16–17:58 on the 4th.

    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 704 minutes on the 3rd and 446 of 702 on the 4th.

    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 15325 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1938: Tuesday 4 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1938 falls on Tuesday 4 October. Daśamī runs from 11:27 on Mon 3 Oct to 13:42 on Tue 4 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 446 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1938/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingTue 4 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionTue 4 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileTue 4 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 3rdCoveredSunrise 4thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles07:00 → 21:4205:49635 min05:500 min3 Oct
Chicago09:00 → 23:4205:49509 min05:500 min3 Oct
Jersey City10:00 → 00:4205:54455 min05:560 min3 Oct
Port of Spain11:00 → 01:4205:55415 min05:550 min3 Oct
London15:00 → 05:4206:03155 min06:050 min3 Oct
Durban17:00 → 07:4205:3357 min05:32130 min4 Oct
Dubai19:00 → 09:4206:110 min06:12210 min4 Oct
Delhi20:30 → 11:1206:150 min06:15297 min4 Oct
Kolkata20:30 → 11:1205:290 min05:29343 min4 Oct
Singapore22:20 → 13:0206:110 min06:11411 min4 Oct
Sydney01:00 → 15:4205:310 min05:30612 min4 Oct
Suva03:00 → 17:4205:480 min05:47715 min4 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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