Ruling · Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) · 1940

Thursday 10 October

Determinatein Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. Clear of every threshold by 202 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 10 October

Taken. The only day Daśamī with Śravaṇa reaches.

07:22 sunrisesunset 18:48
06:5808:5810:5812:5814:5816:5818:58

685 of 685 minutes covered

Day of Friday 11 October

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

07:23 sunrisesunset 18:46
06:5908:5910:5912:5914:5916:5918:59

0 of 683 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 04:00 on Thu 10 Oct to 05:19 on Fri 11 Oct, and Śravaṇa from 01:31 on Thu 10 Oct to 03:20 on Fri 11 Oct. They are together from 04:00 on Thu 10 Oct to 03:20 on Fri 11 Oct.

    1940-10-09T19:00:04Z → 1940-10-10T18:20:03Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    The day time is sunrise to sunset: 07:22–18:48 on the 10th, 07:23–18:46 on the 11th.

    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 685 of 685 minutes on the 10th and 0 of 683 on the 11th.

    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 12133 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vijayā Daśamī, Baoding, 1940: Thursday 10 October.

    confidence: determinate

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vijayā Daśamī (Dussehra) 1940 falls on Thursday 10 October. Daśamī runs from 04:00 on Thu 10 Oct to 05:19 on Fri 11 Oct and is with Śravaṇa in the day time that day, for 685 minutes.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1940/vijaya-dashami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingThu 10 Oct
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionThu 10 Oct
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileThu 10 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 9thCoveredSunrise 10thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles11:00 → 10:2005:54386 min05:54266 min9 Oct
Chicago13:00 → 12:2005:56259 min05:58383 min10 Oct
Jersey City14:00 → 13:2006:01205 min06:02438 min10 Oct
Port of Spain15:00 → 14:2005:55172 min05:55505 min10 Oct
London20:00 → 19:2007:140 min07:16662 min10 Oct
Durban21:00 → 20:2005:250 min05:24758 min10 Oct
Dubai23:00 → 22:2006:140 min06:15702 min10 Oct
Delhi00:30 → 23:5006:180 min06:19698 min10 Oct
Kolkata00:30 → 23:5005:310 min05:31705 min10 Oct
Singapore02:20 → 01:4006:090 min06:09725 min10 Oct
Sydney05:00 → 04:2005:230 min05:21763 min10 Oct
Suva07:00 → 06:2005:430 min05:42665 min10 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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